It's the "interwebs" what's really bloated. My Firefox executable here is taking just 7.3MB, but then you open several web pages that take MBs each, and some more in uncompressed, parsed form. Then some browsers cache other stuff like rendered pages in memory, and you get those figures we're talking about.
They don't memorize any shortcuts, they just write down the pronunciation (either in Pinyin/romanization in the RPC or in Bopomofo in Taiwan) and then choose from the possible homophones, usually helped with a predictive system. It's similar in Japan as well.
I'm not supporting granparent's exaggerations, but there's a big difference between the chinese economy and the american economy: the chinese are exporters and a weak Yuan makes them more competitive, and the USA is, relatively to the size of the economy, a smaller exporter. America benefits from a weak dollar as it makes debt smaller and exports bigger, but at the same time it means America is losing international weight and buying power.
The USA can't afford a very weak dollar, because many things aren't even made in the USA anymore. Inflation would sky-rocket and the economy would collapse.
Do you know that the average programmer already makes more in Britain than in America? A weaker dollar could cause a big migration of skilled workers from the USA for the first time in american history.
First this has nothing to do with free software. More in other replies.
Second, and most importantly: it is about STANDARDS support, and not using non-standard features. If every site has to be redone for EACH browser, then you either have to multiply your work or you stop supporting more than a couple browsers. Nobody wants that (well maybe MS does, but I'm talking about consumers here). Sites should be based on standards. If a site is standard-compliant, and a browser doesn't render it, the it is the browser's fault (or at least it's not the site's fault).
True, standards are getting bloated at such a pace nobody can fully support them, but that's a different story altogether, unrelated to this case.
You had another point. James Kim is a completely unfamiliar name to most of the international Slashdot readership. All of my acquaitances outside of the USA had no idea who this guy was until the fuss in the "blogosphere" and news sites.
Nobody is claiming Ukraine is better or worse than Russia. There are two sides to this:
1 Ukrainian people (for the most part, especially in the western half) believe they (or shall I say "we" as I have family there) have better chances outside of the russian sphere of influence. Seriously, you may think otherwise from the outside, but except for people who have very close ties to Russia and depend on them, the majority of the country is aware of the benefits to the west.
2 They think Russia just want to police and share their stuff. Why dealing with both your mafia and the russian mafia?
This is not about friendship, it's about a foreign power wanting to have a hold of your own resources. Of course there is a battle for power in Ukraine and both parties are crooked, but it's pretty safe to say they have a better shot in the near future next to the EU than to the Russian Federation. This is all the people want - to live better, and during their lifetime if possible;)
Russia is a close, very similar people, but it's not the very same people and they have their own interests. It's just that. I like Russia as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't want them to hinder my own prosperity.
I see you have never been to Tokyo. Capsule cells are cheap replacements of a brotel for lonely, travelling people. Hotels in Tokyo are just fine. Central Tokyo is not any bit more packed than Manhattan.
If they do so, then they will be in a similar situation soon.
Debian used to have an agreement with Mozilla, but the new person in charge of brand image is taking a hard stance on this. NetBSD and Gentoo will have to stop calling Firefox their locally patched versions.
I certainly don't consider the USA to be very civilized, but I expect some progress over 1945. America is probably the most backwards of all western nations, with more religious wackos than any other and with the most disdain for science. It's up there with "moderated" muslim nations. Still, it's a big country and there are numerous brilliant individuals coming out of it.
Those of you who justify the NUKING of CIVILIAN CITY CENTERS like Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be responsible when some day the USA gets nuked and then people still have the nerve to justify it in hindsight. It's bound to happen, I just prefer it to happen once I'm not alive to see it.
Analyst Evermore is wrong. By the time you bought the 6E+6 console, Sony's value would be far away from Microsoft's reach. Microsoft can't afford to buy a company 1/10th the size of Sony, even more so with the uncertainty about Vista market outcome in the medium term. It would be suicidal.
It is also any team's objective to win as much as possible.
That's why there is a regulator body so they can't just go over the line - in business world that is supposing to be the government. The government has to set a small, tight set of rules and ENFORCE them. When that doesn't happen things go horribly bad.
This is where the GPL gets tricky, but basically you don't have to license under GPL anything just for linking to a GPLed library or for using the output of a GPLed program. It's stated in the GNU GPL FAQ.
I think the GPL is okay for some things, but not for everything by any means. That said, most of the time you can do just fine by no GPLing your own code and avoiding the inclusion of GPLed code (basically the only way to violate the GPL).
GParent really sounds retarded for wanting to a Terabyte upgrade, when it can be done incrementally. He disses the reliability of Harddrives when all his data is plugged to a 386 system with a SINGLE DRIVE WITH NO RAID WHATSOEVER? And yeah, having your data in a couple of drives is better than having it only in one drive.
If most work, then to get one that works is not being 'abnormally lucky'.
Except grandparent didn't talk about one single device, but several.
Consider 80% worked (very optimistic). That would make the probability of having 5 devices ALL working as low as.80^5 =.32768 . A whopping 32.768% and that is being optimistic and considering the user has come only though 5 peripherals among years. People (let alone families) use digital cameras, mp3 players, camcorders, portable consoles, etc... and they go though very short upgrade cycles. My aunt is no photographer and has gone though 3 digital cameras already. Longer battery life, better quality, etc... people like new toys.
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Here http://sourceforge.net/projects/libarc/ ... it specifies BSD license.
It's the "interwebs" what's really bloated. My Firefox executable here is taking just 7.3MB, but then you open several web pages that take MBs each, and some more in uncompressed, parsed form. Then some browsers cache other stuff like rendered pages in memory, and you get those figures we're talking about.
Since Google is doing this, my guess is they looked into J2ME, found a mess of legacy code and outdated standards, and decided it wasn't worth it.
Even Microsoft was wise enough to do something similar when they decided to scrap the whole pre-NT platform and start anew.
Actually, Gates himself confirmed this point when asked about Chinese piracy.
They don't memorize any shortcuts, they just write down the pronunciation (either in Pinyin/romanization in the RPC or in Bopomofo in Taiwan) and then choose from the possible homophones, usually helped with a predictive system. It's similar in Japan as well.
I wonder why didn't that guy use a real camera. Horrible pics.
Few nit-picks about this machine:
- a lot of real-estate wasted to the sides of the screen. Couldn't they put there thumb-pointers like those in the VAIO UX50? or at some cursor buttons? For reference: http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/08/unboxing-the-sony-vaio-ux50/
- a second, fanless, merom-based generation is already coming in April. If they keep the same price I'm in. http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20070904PD215.html
Going down to 7W from 11W looks pretty big to me.
I'm not supporting granparent's exaggerations, but there's a big difference between the chinese economy and the american economy: the chinese are exporters and a weak Yuan makes them more competitive, and the USA is, relatively to the size of the economy, a smaller exporter. America benefits from a weak dollar as it makes debt smaller and exports bigger, but at the same time it means America is losing international weight and buying power.
The USA can't afford a very weak dollar, because many things aren't even made in the USA anymore. Inflation would sky-rocket and the economy would collapse.
Do you know that the average programmer already makes more in Britain than in America? A weaker dollar could cause a big migration of skilled workers from the USA for the first time in american history.
They have some, mostly in Japan. I've bought Turbolinux in the past, but I swear I never will after this move.
Sounds like a seller.
100 British pound = 200.34 U.S. dollars as of today. 175$ would be 87.35 quid.
Why MySQL? it's not in the same league at all. If you are in the market for Oracle, you definitely are not in the market for mySQL.
Oracle vs PostgreSQL would make a lot more sense. 8 series of course.
First this has nothing to do with free software. More in other replies.
Second, and most importantly: it is about STANDARDS support, and not using non-standard features. If every site has to be redone for EACH browser, then you either have to multiply your work or you stop supporting more than a couple browsers. Nobody wants that (well maybe MS does, but I'm talking about consumers here). Sites should be based on standards. If a site is standard-compliant, and a browser doesn't render it, the it is the browser's fault (or at least it's not the site's fault).
True, standards are getting bloated at such a pace nobody can fully support them, but that's a different story altogether, unrelated to this case.
You had another point. James Kim is a completely unfamiliar name to most of the international Slashdot readership. All of my acquaitances outside of the USA had no idea who this guy was until the fuss in the "blogosphere" and news sites.
Nobody is claiming Ukraine is better or worse than Russia. There are two sides to this:
;)
1 Ukrainian people (for the most part, especially in the western half) believe they (or shall I say "we" as I have family there) have better chances outside of the russian sphere of influence. Seriously, you may think otherwise from the outside, but except for people who have very close ties to Russia and depend on them, the majority of the country is aware of the benefits to the west.
2 They think Russia just want to police and share their stuff. Why dealing with both your mafia and the russian mafia?
This is not about friendship, it's about a foreign power wanting to have a hold of your own resources. Of course there is a battle for power in Ukraine and both parties are crooked, but it's pretty safe to say they have a better shot in the near future next to the EU than to the Russian Federation. This is all the people want - to live better, and during their lifetime if possible
Russia is a close, very similar people, but it's not the very same people and they have their own interests. It's just that. I like Russia as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't want them to hinder my own prosperity.
Ukrainian and Georgian people don't want to be run by russian thugs. Trust me on this.
Russia is all nice and dandy, but let independent countries run their own biz. They call that, you know, imperialism.
I see you have never been to Tokyo. Capsule cells are cheap replacements of a brotel for lonely, travelling people. Hotels in Tokyo are just fine. Central Tokyo is not any bit more packed than Manhattan.
If they do so, then they will be in a similar situation soon.
Debian used to have an agreement with Mozilla, but the new person in charge of brand image is taking a hard stance on this. NetBSD and Gentoo will have to stop calling Firefox their locally patched versions.
I certainly don't consider the USA to be very civilized, but I expect some progress over 1945. America is probably the most backwards of all western nations, with more religious wackos than any other and with the most disdain for science. It's up there with "moderated" muslim nations. Still, it's a big country and there are numerous brilliant individuals coming out of it.
Those of you who justify the NUKING of CIVILIAN CITY CENTERS like Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be responsible when some day the USA gets nuked and then people still have the nerve to justify it in hindsight. It's bound to happen, I just prefer it to happen once I'm not alive to see it.
Apparently, all those features are there in OS4.
Check Ars' preview here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/amiga.ars/1
One can only dream they got it right...
Analyst Evermore is wrong. By the time you bought the 6E+6 console, Sony's value would be far away from Microsoft's reach. Microsoft can't afford to buy a company 1/10th the size of Sony, even more so with the uncertainty about Vista market outcome in the medium term. It would be suicidal.
Yep, I'm sorry.
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibrar
You can still use the output of a GPL program without GPL-ing yours.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOutpu
As I said, the GPL is overly restrictive for many uses...
It is also any team's objective to win as much as possible.
That's why there is a regulator body so they can't just go over the line - in business world that is supposing to be the government. The government has to set a small, tight set of rules and ENFORCE them. When that doesn't happen things go horribly bad.
This is where the GPL gets tricky, but basically you don't have to license under GPL anything just for linking to a GPLed library or for using the output of a GPLed program. It's stated in the GNU GPL FAQ.
I think the GPL is okay for some things, but not for everything by any means. That said, most of the time you can do just fine by no GPLing your own code and avoiding the inclusion of GPLed code (basically the only way to violate the GPL).
It's actually possible with a BIOS upgrade.
GParent really sounds retarded for wanting to a Terabyte upgrade, when it can be done incrementally. He disses the reliability of Harddrives when all his data is plugged to a 386 system with a SINGLE DRIVE WITH NO RAID WHATSOEVER? And yeah, having your data in a couple of drives is better than having it only in one drive.
I'm not sure what's he smoking.
Except grandparent didn't talk about one single device, but several.
Consider 80% worked (very optimistic). That would make the probability of having 5 devices ALL working as low as