one man's trash is another mans treasure I suppose
True enough. I've never been a Dr Who fan myself, but given all the hype surrounding this series I thought I'd give it a shot and see what I was missing. Obviously I needn't have bothered, but I guess there's enough people enjoying it to make it worthwhile for them.
Anyway, the new Doctor Who series is absolutely gripping, laugh-out-loud funny, and subtly frightening...
You misspelt complete and utter drivel. I really can't see what everyone is so excited about, the show is just utter nonsense. I'm not suprised that Eccelstone decided to only do the one series. I've always been reasonably happy with what the BBC have done with my license money, but this one is definately a bad move imho.
Even if IE7 turns out to be the best product ever created by mortal man, people will immediately assume it sux (minus MS zealots of course).
Bullpats. People will use IE7 regardless. Especially when it makes its way into Windows Update.
They need to reinvent themselves in the eyes of the consumer, the business and world.
I wouldn't entirely disagree with that, but people will still use Mircosoft, because at the end of the day, it works for most people. Those that know enough to admin their machines correctly have few problems. Those that don't, call people that do, or carry on regardless. It's a sorry state of affairs, but it's the way it is.
Really? I have to say I find that quite amazing. How long has arch been around? And git is, what, 3 or so weeks old? Either Linus really is as shit hot a coder as many would have us believe, or the arch guys have been doing something terribly wrong. Is git so fundamentally different from every other SCM out there that no one but Linus saw the need for it? Open source really does move breathtakingly fast sometimes...
I agree with pretty much everything you said. The trouble is, DRM is a (poor) technical fix for a social problem. Those that really want to copy these thigns generally still will, whereas some (potential) paying customers such as myself have problems with it (I've yet to see any reasonable online music site offering files I can play under Linux, and no, that dodgy Russian site isn't one, before anyone points me to it).
Personally I still prefer to buy CDs. I like having the physical item in my hands, but even some of these are now coming with Copy Protection. Some people have had problems with these, yet again proving the technical solution is not the correct one. Unfortunately, I've no idea what is.
In the long run, Debian may well have to concentrate more on some architectures than others, but a radical step such as the one proposed will probably not fly well with the community. Since our users are our top priority, you can expect many more emails on the topic before anything will happen.
As a long time Debian user, I'm all for it, but that's probably because I'm only interested in x86 and AMD64. I think having multiple arch's is a great idea in principle, and I'm not overly keen on the idea of stomping on the minority, but it's been pretty obvious for a long while that Debian is struggling get all this stuff together into a stable release. No other distribution seems to have anywhere near the long release cycle that Debian has. Interestingly none of the others have anywhere near the number of arch's to support either. The correlation seems fairly obvious to me.
While I respect you for wanting to further your education, I would argue obtaining another degree is the wrong way to do it. It's been said a million times, but there really is absolutely no substitute for experience, and 3 years of it is worth far more than another piece of paper. Knowing the theory, and being able to put it to use in real life situations are two different things. I suspect you already know this as you obtained your degree two years ago, and hopefully have been employed for at least some of that time.
Unless of course you are looking to learn something totally unrelated to Computer Science in order to provide an additional route for employment. If that's the case, only you can make that choice, and asking people here is silly. If you're not interested in the subject, you're highly unlikey to be motivated enough to do the best you can at it.
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[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
You probably meant ceased, not seized. Seized is when you grab hold of something. Ceased is when something ceases to be. Hope that's polite enough:)
No, you misunderstand, it has nothing to do with MDI. In Word, I can view pages 1-2 side by side. Typing off the end of page 1 will bring me over to page 2 on the other side. Pressing page down will move me to pages 3-4. AFAIK, you can't do that with two seperate windows.
Anyone know if you can view and edit two pages side by side like you can in Word? It's a really useful feature when you have a decent sized screen to work with. I have played with an earlier snapshot release a bit but haven't been able to find anything in the menus that would accomplish it.
Yes he wrote teh C++ front-end, but almost all of the code he wrote is gone now, rewritten to be better. All of the code he wrote was crap code.
That's entirely irrelavant and a stupid argument (if you can call it that). Presumably he wrote the code because at that point nobody else had. Just because it's since been rewritten does nothing to detract from his original contribution. You could claim that the current code is crap because it will be rewitten at some point in the future, and that too would be a stupid argument.
Why do these discussions always come down to these issues? Did it occur to you that the oversight might have something to do with management of the BBC. That has little to do with free speech.
"Setting up paths, shells and patches" is the idiot work of system administration.
When everything works as expected, I would absolutely agree with you. It's when things don't work as expected that a sysadmin excels, and a programmer has problems. Of course, I'm being pretty general, and paths and shells definately are basic stuff. Patches and packages are not so straightforward. I admined Solaris for 4 years or so. Haven't touched them in 2 years, and don't miss it one bit. Nasty system.
A programmer should know how to administer his own machine.
Hmmm. Should a sysadmin be expected to write his own drivers?
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Personally I fail to see how one has anything to do with the other. Writing a driver is system level programming. Setting up paths, shells and patches is system administration. While some people can be good at both, most people are generally only good at one. If you are one of the former, then we bow to your superior intellect.
It seems the KDE team is emulating Microsoft's penchant for changing how major features of the interface work at frequent intervals.
I'm not a heavy KDE user, although I do develop programs under it. I can't say I've noticed anything that's changed much between releases, and certainly not "major features of the interface". Could you give an example?
I would argue that we need an Exchange replacement mroe than an Outlook one. The two kind of go hand in hand, but there are a few reasonable mail clients around that are getting close to Outlook's capabilities, but they need the backend infrastructure to really do it right. All of those "Exchange replacements" I have seen are just bundling together existing applications without much thought to integration.
In all hoensty, one of the main stumbling blocks I see in all of this is a lack of integration with Directory Services. Say what you want about Active Directory (it certainly has its problems), but it does show just what a group of applications working well together can achieve.
Not to nit-pick, but Vangelis is a man, not a group. I'm glad you've found his music though. Conquest of Paradise would have to be one of my favourite tracks.
Not exposing your kids to guns yourself (or having a responsible friend expose them) will just leave their first shooting experience to their peers, which can/does end poorly.
Wow! The US really is a fucked up place. I've never fired a real gun in my life, but I certainly don't feel like I missed out on anything. What's the big attraction in encouraging the use of instruments meant soley for wounding or killing things?
Forcing people to use a browser that has, as yet, not been proved completely secure is ridiculous. When the first hole hits, you're going to have egg all over your face and those victims you forced aren't going to trust open source again for a loooong time.
What browser has been proven completely secure? There's no such thing as a completely secure bit of software. Certainly not anything of reasonable complexity. That's a fairly weak argument for not converting to Firefox if you ask me.
Asimov never intended the three laws of robotics to be taken seriously.
No, he didn't, but he was quite pleased with himself when he saw the impact they'd had. And rightly so. The three laws of robotics (four if you count the zeroeth law added in later stories) are a wonderful story telling framework, but they do potentially have a serious use. There are people working on making robots that adhere to these laws in some way. Asimov should be considered the forefather of modern robotics (a word he invented) in my opinion, despite the fact he only ever told stories about them.
Have you tried using rsync to keep files updated both ways? Unison is a better fit for this, but last time I looked it was still not reliable enough for me to trust it to important data.
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one man's trash is another mans treasure I suppose
True enough. I've never been a Dr Who fan myself, but given all the hype surrounding this series I thought I'd give it a shot and see what I was missing. Obviously I needn't have bothered, but I guess there's enough people enjoying it to make it worthwhile for them.
Anyway, the new Doctor Who series is absolutely gripping, laugh-out-loud funny, and subtly frightening...
You misspelt complete and utter drivel. I really can't see what everyone is so excited about, the show is just utter nonsense. I'm not suprised that Eccelstone decided to only do the one series. I've always been reasonably happy with what the BBC have done with my license money, but this one is definately a bad move imho.
Even if IE7 turns out to be the best product ever created by mortal man, people will immediately assume it sux (minus MS zealots of course).
Bullpats. People will use IE7 regardless. Especially when it makes its way into Windows Update.
They need to reinvent themselves in the eyes of the consumer, the business and world.
I wouldn't entirely disagree with that, but people will still use Mircosoft, because at the end of the day, it works for most people. Those that know enough to admin their machines correctly have few problems. Those that don't, call people that do, or carry on regardless. It's a sorry state of affairs, but it's the way it is.
Arch is adopting git as a backend...
Really? I have to say I find that quite amazing. How long has arch been around? And git is, what, 3 or so weeks old? Either Linus really is as shit hot a coder as many would have us believe, or the arch guys have been doing something terribly wrong. Is git so fundamentally different from every other SCM out there that no one but Linus saw the need for it? Open source really does move breathtakingly fast sometimes...
I know, geek worship here, but this is Ed Catmull we're talking about.
Wow, I'm not as geeky as I thought I was, cos I have no fucking idea who the hell you're talking about. Should I be concerned at this point?
I agree with pretty much everything you said. The trouble is, DRM is a (poor) technical fix for a social problem. Those that really want to copy these thigns generally still will, whereas some (potential) paying customers such as myself have problems with it (I've yet to see any reasonable online music site offering files I can play under Linux, and no, that dodgy Russian site isn't one, before anyone points me to it).
Personally I still prefer to buy CDs. I like having the physical item in my hands, but even some of these are now coming with Copy Protection. Some people have had problems with these, yet again proving the technical solution is not the correct one. Unfortunately, I've no idea what is.
In the long run, Debian may well have to concentrate more on some architectures than others, but a radical step such as the one proposed will probably not fly well with the community. Since our users are our top priority, you can expect many more emails on the topic before anything will happen.
As a long time Debian user, I'm all for it, but that's probably because I'm only interested in x86 and AMD64. I think having multiple arch's is a great idea in principle, and I'm not overly keen on the idea of stomping on the minority, but it's been pretty obvious for a long while that Debian is struggling get all this stuff together into a stable release. No other distribution seems to have anywhere near the long release cycle that Debian has. Interestingly none of the others have anywhere near the number of arch's to support either. The correlation seems fairly obvious to me.
While I respect you for wanting to further your education, I would argue obtaining another degree is the wrong way to do it. It's been said a million times, but there really is absolutely no substitute for experience, and 3 years of it is worth far more than another piece of paper. Knowing the theory, and being able to put it to use in real life situations are two different things. I suspect you already know this as you obtained your degree two years ago, and hopefully have been employed for at least some of that time.
Unless of course you are looking to learn something totally unrelated to Computer Science in order to provide an additional route for employment. If that's the case, only you can make that choice, and asking people here is silly. If you're not interested in the subject, you're highly unlikey to be motivated enough to do the best you can at it.
[My english is better than most other people's german, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
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You probably meant ceased, not seized. Seized is when you grab hold of something. Ceased is when something ceases to be. Hope that's polite enough
No, you misunderstand, it has nothing to do with MDI. In Word, I can view pages 1-2 side by side. Typing off the end of page 1 will bring me over to page 2 on the other side. Pressing page down will move me to pages 3-4. AFAIK, you can't do that with two seperate windows.
Anyone know if you can view and edit two pages side by side like you can in Word? It's a really useful feature when you have a decent sized screen to work with. I have played with an earlier snapshot release a bit but haven't been able to find anything in the menus that would accomplish it.
Yes he wrote teh C++ front-end, but almost all of the code he wrote is gone now, rewritten to be better. All of the code he wrote was crap code.
That's entirely irrelavant and a stupid argument (if you can call it that). Presumably he wrote the code because at that point nobody else had. Just because it's since been rewritten does nothing to detract from his original contribution. You could claim that the current code is crap because it will be rewitten at some point in the future, and that too would be a stupid argument.
What about freedom of expression and speech?
Why do these discussions always come down to these issues? Did it occur to you that the oversight might have something to do with management of the BBC. That has little to do with free speech.
"Setting up paths, shells and patches" is the idiot work of system administration.
When everything works as expected, I would absolutely agree with you. It's when things don't work as expected that a sysadmin excels, and a programmer has problems. Of course, I'm being pretty general, and paths and shells definately are basic stuff. Patches and packages are not so straightforward. I admined Solaris for 4 years or so. Haven't touched them in 2 years, and don't miss it one bit. Nasty system.
A programmer should know how to administer his own machine.
Hmmm. Should a sysadmin be expected to write his own drivers?
Personally I fail to see how one has anything to do with the other. Writing a driver is system level programming. Setting up paths, shells and patches is system administration. While some people can be good at both, most people are generally only good at one. If you are one of the former, then we bow to your superior intellect.
It seems the KDE team is emulating Microsoft's penchant for changing how major features of the interface work at frequent intervals.
I'm not a heavy KDE user, although I do develop programs under it. I can't say I've noticed anything that's changed much between releases, and certainly not "major features of the interface". Could you give an example?
I would argue that we need an Exchange replacement mroe than an Outlook one. The two kind of go hand in hand, but there are a few reasonable mail clients around that are getting close to Outlook's capabilities, but they need the backend infrastructure to really do it right. All of those "Exchange replacements" I have seen are just bundling together existing applications without much thought to integration.
In all hoensty, one of the main stumbling blocks I see in all of this is a lack of integration with Directory Services. Say what you want about Active Directory (it certainly has its problems), but it does show just what a group of applications working well together can achieve.
This distinction is important because we will learn to telecopy objects and telecopy live organisms before we learn to teleport them.
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Nonsense. Jeff Goldblum did that nearly twenty years ago. Although there were still some bugs to kill off...
Not to nit-pick, but Vangelis is a man, not a group. I'm glad you've found his music though. Conquest of Paradise would have to be one of my favourite tracks.
Just go to a doctor and have some tests done for fuck sake.
Not exposing your kids to guns yourself (or having a responsible friend expose them) will just leave their first shooting experience to their peers, which can/does end poorly.
Wow! The US really is a fucked up place. I've never fired a real gun in my life, but I certainly don't feel like I missed out on anything. What's the big attraction in encouraging the use of instruments meant soley for wounding or killing things?
Forcing people to use a browser that has, as yet, not been proved completely secure is ridiculous. When the first hole hits, you're going to have egg all over your face and those victims you forced aren't going to trust open source again for a loooong time.
What browser has been proven completely secure? There's no such thing as a completely secure bit of software. Certainly not anything of reasonable complexity. That's a fairly weak argument for not converting to Firefox if you ask me.
I wonder if all the dead and the families of the dead think it's worth it. Probably not.
Asimov never intended the three laws of robotics to be taken seriously.
No, he didn't, but he was quite pleased with himself when he saw the impact they'd had. And rightly so. The three laws of robotics (four if you count the zeroeth law added in later stories) are a wonderful story telling framework, but they do potentially have a serious use. There are people working on making robots that adhere to these laws in some way. Asimov should be considered the forefather of modern robotics (a word he invented) in my opinion, despite the fact he only ever told stories about them.
Have you tried using rsync to keep files updated both ways? Unison is a better fit for this, but last time I looked it was still not reliable enough for me to trust it to important data.