Google has no lucrative motive for sabotating Linux. If anything, Chrome OS is another distro that tries to reach the masses because everybody else is doing it wrong, just like Ubuntu. They'll really like if Linux gets to the masses, being it Suse, Ubuntu or Chrome.
That said, that is a pretty good move of Canonical. You have no bargaining power on your default engine if everybody belives you are philosophicaly tied to Google. That will open this market for other comercial distros getting similar deals, and will make them more lucrative.
"In fact, during the same time period a guy named Craig Gentry solved [techtarget.com] a major open crypto problem --- namely, how to compute on encrypted data --- and it got a fraction of the press coverage."
I've saw that on slashdot. It is too separated from the normal people's world, what may explain that it didn't get mainstream press coverage. Most people wouldn't understand what it is good for.
It is quite hard to imagine a AI that would demand the right of not being an slave. Really. At least the first batch will be created for a propose, why do you think they'd want to not fullfill their propose? (Who would create them on such a way?) If anything, such AI could demand the right to work more, if we ever try to limit it.
So, it seems that the Earth's atmosphere doesn't make it very hard to detect dyson spheres. That is cool. But we aren't searching very intensely for them.
Well, let me state 3: Things that replicate are logicaly constrained by natural evolution. So you can get a reason why logic may be wrong, but that must be quite a good reason, and I won't get that possibility into my analysis until there is such a reason.
You just don't go far enough when you say that we consider some things to be BASIC of life.
All small business owner can think on the lines the GP outlined. Some may not be smart enought to put them on such friendly terms, but all of them will think those same toughts.
If they wanted to live with bureocracy and CYA politics, they'd work on big companies (or the governemnt). That is much easier.
You never have to worry about half indents choking the editor.
I don't understand what you mean by this.
If you use 4 spaces identing, and somebody uses 2 spaces identing on your team, your editor will only be able to ident things at the even levels of the other person's code.
I agree that giving (different) meaning to invisible characters is bad, but I must point that "\0", "\000" and "\x00" are exactly the same character (also, '0' if you happen to be coding in C). No wonder that most compilers treat them the same way.
It won't be sucessfull (who wants that stuff?), and even if it were, it wouldn't reduce piracy (what is stopping people to pirate the new content, every time it changes?). But it is at least a step on the right direction. The way to fight piracy is offering added value at the legitm copies, not subtracted value, and they got that right.
Putting those things on a lagrange point is way (a few orders of magnitude) more expensive, way riskier, and would make it way harder to keep a laser colimated until it reaches Earth.
Since there is no difference between the several photons getting on the Moon surface, they could very well be moving from point A to point B. We just can't observe it, the only thing we know is that there are photons comming out of point A, and then photons comming out of point B.
"I'll take OpenOffice writer over MS Office Word any day. I'm not a linux fanboy, I use OpenOffice on windows. 35 MB for a 30-pages word document is just not cutting it for me. Excel is better in some parts, and worse in others, than OO's Calc - it's a tie for me. I preffer Powerpoint to its OpenOffice equivalent. And then, drawing tool and equation editors are just plain better in OpenOffice."
Well, I am a Linux fanboy. I'll take Writer over Word on any day, when you type the text, Writer just writes it, Word changes formating, (un)nest your lists, changes the text and so on. I'll take Excell over Calc on any day, Calc is severly limited. Powerpoint is much more functional than Presenter, but if you need something more complex than Presenter, you are making something wrong. Now, both drawing tools and equation editors are lame.
It's probably not what the GP was talking about, but if somebody improved the support for C++ templates, that would be great. Sometimes it gets lost.
Anyway, it is not as if what a debuger does changed on those 30 years. What is happening is that there is a generation of developers afraid to use the command line, as amusing as it may sound. May I add that I doubt about the competence of those ones that are afraid of the command line, but they are cheap, sometimes it is hard to make a point about hiring good people.
About IDEs, enterprize languages (Java,.Net) come with lots and lots of redundancy. You don't want to get ride of the redundancy, since that is what makes those languages resilient to bad programers passin through a team, so the good programmers automatize things through IDEs, and everybody is happy. The problem is that people see how much productivity they gain with a IDE on such languages, and start expecting the same gain when working on less redundant ones.
"MS sells licences to the Wintel box-pushers who move product by the megapallet every year; but have shitty margins. Apple sells relatively modest volumes to people willing to pay for their substantial margins."
Microsoft owning a significative share of Apple helps a lot. MS gets both the low margin and a nice share of the hight margin markets. I'd say it looks quite stable for me too.
Maybe... He got all the trouble of separating the punctuation from the adress, he could at least put a few href="mailto:..." tags in it. No, doesn't deserve the moderation:p
My experience is that on Debian if you install GpG, Kmail instantyl activates all the buttons and interface changes needed for suporting it. The only thing that is hard to do (or, I guess I just didn't try to learn) is adding other people's keys to your database.
GpG by the way is required by aptitude nowadays, thus almost always present on Debian installs.
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Well, Google wouldn't match the deal if they tought you'd never close the deal with Yahoo.
Google has no lucrative motive for sabotating Linux. If anything, Chrome OS is another distro that tries to reach the masses because everybody else is doing it wrong, just like Ubuntu. They'll really like if Linux gets to the masses, being it Suse, Ubuntu or Chrome.
That said, that is a pretty good move of Canonical. You have no bargaining power on your default engine if everybody belives you are philosophicaly tied to Google. That will open this market for other comercial distros getting similar deals, and will make them more lucrative.
Farmers have being storing liquid nitrogen on their (rural area) basement for a few decades now, with very few problems.
I've saw that on slashdot. It is too separated from the normal people's world, what may explain that it didn't get mainstream press coverage. Most people wouldn't understand what it is good for.
The GP probably didn't have boolean as a primitive type on the used language.
It is quite hard to imagine a AI that would demand the right of not being an slave. Really. At least the first batch will be created for a propose, why do you think they'd want to not fullfill their propose? (Who would create them on such a way?) If anything, such AI could demand the right to work more, if we ever try to limit it.
So, it seems that the Earth's atmosphere doesn't make it very hard to detect dyson spheres. That is cool. But we aren't searching very intensely for them.
Well, let me state 3: Things that replicate are logicaly constrained by natural evolution. So you can get a reason why logic may be wrong, but that must be quite a good reason, and I won't get that possibility into my analysis until there is such a reason.
You just don't go far enough when you say that we consider some things to be BASIC of life.
Well, that is still better than 42... I guess.
You are replacing shelves of paper with a 2 inches block of nickel.
All small business owner can think on the lines the GP outlined. Some may not be smart enought to put them on such friendly terms, but all of them will think those same toughts.
If they wanted to live with bureocracy and CYA politics, they'd work on big companies (or the governemnt). That is much easier.
Well, have you seen the API for using it? Starting services is way easier.
If you use 4 spaces identing, and somebody uses 2 spaces identing on your team, your editor will only be able to ident things at the even levels of the other person's code.
I agree that giving (different) meaning to invisible characters is bad, but I must point that "\0", "\000" and "\x00" are exactly the same character (also, '0' if you happen to be coding in C). No wonder that most compilers treat them the same way.
It won't be sucessfull (who wants that stuff?), and even if it were, it wouldn't reduce piracy (what is stopping people to pirate the new content, every time it changes?). But it is at least a step on the right direction. The way to fight piracy is offering added value at the legitm copies, not subtracted value, and they got that right.
US, really? For the description I tought he was talking about Brazil...
Probaly somebody from somewere else with think about another country first.
Putting those things on a lagrange point is way (a few orders of magnitude) more expensive, way riskier, and would make it way harder to keep a laser colimated until it reaches Earth.
Yep, those are real issues. I'm probably suffering from a "does what I want" problem here, and other people experience will vary.
On the good side, that is good news!
Since there is no difference between the several photons getting on the Moon surface, they could very well be moving from point A to point B. We just can't observe it, the only thing we know is that there are photons comming out of point A, and then photons comming out of point B.
And, yes, things work like that.
Well, I am a Linux fanboy. I'll take Writer over Word on any day, when you type the text, Writer just writes it, Word changes formating, (un)nest your lists, changes the text and so on. I'll take Excell over Calc on any day, Calc is severly limited. Powerpoint is much more functional than Presenter, but if you need something more complex than Presenter, you are making something wrong. Now, both drawing tools and equation editors are lame.
So, the only optin is rewriting VI in Emacs-Lisp?
It's probably not what the GP was talking about, but if somebody improved the support for C++ templates, that would be great. Sometimes it gets lost.
Anyway, it is not as if what a debuger does changed on those 30 years. What is happening is that there is a generation of developers afraid to use the command line, as amusing as it may sound. May I add that I doubt about the competence of those ones that are afraid of the command line, but they are cheap, sometimes it is hard to make a point about hiring good people.
About IDEs, enterprize languages (Java, .Net) come with lots and lots of redundancy. You don't want to get ride of the redundancy, since that is what makes those languages resilient to bad programers passin through a team, so the good programmers automatize things through IDEs, and everybody is happy. The problem is that people see how much productivity they gain with a IDE on such languages, and start expecting the same gain when working on less redundant ones.
Microsoft owning a significative share of Apple helps a lot. MS gets both the low margin and a nice share of the hight margin markets. I'd say it looks quite stable for me too.
Maybe... He got all the trouble of separating the punctuation from the adress, he could at least put a few href="mailto:..." tags in it. No, doesn't deserve the moderation :p
My experience is that on Debian if you install GpG, Kmail instantyl activates all the buttons and interface changes needed for suporting it. The only thing that is hard to do (or, I guess I just didn't try to learn) is adding other people's keys to your database.
GpG by the way is required by aptitude nowadays, thus almost always present on Debian installs.