I was going to post this but he got to it first. Normally GNAA stuff is unworthy of Slashdot, but that is fucking hilarious! If you don't believe him, go to GNAA's website and read it for yourself.
WYSIWYG. With apt I see outdated, broken, and/or missing packages everywhere. More mature my ass. Source based Linux is far more practical.
Apt is great in theory but until all of Linux unites behind it as THE binary standard, its problems will not go away. I'll switch off Gentoo the day I can reliably go to ANY Linux software website, EXPECT a download for a.deb, double click install it, and expect it to work.
As it stands, most Linux software is released as source only and it is the distro's responsibility to compile it. Who wants to compile for 5 different binary standards? Source is the unfortunate best way to go in Linux. This is why Gentoo's portage (and BSD's system) shines.
Common sense says to me that if I've purchased a copy of Windows XP Professional then I've bought a right to use Windows XP Professional, so therefore I should be able to install Windows XP Professional from any install CD, whether it is mine or not, and still be perfectly within my rights as a holder of a licence to use Windows XP Professional.
If you're allowed to install XP on infinite machines and fair use protects all your friends' rights to use any of those machines you own, then there is nothing stopping you from giving them copies of the software and claiming you own all of their machines and having them legally confirm your ownership of the said machines in a court of law.
This is why no EULAs work this way if the vendor intends to sue over copyright infringement as a deterrant to piracy. If all software worked as you suggest, piracy would be legal. And if that's the case, why bother developing commercial software in the first place?
As it stands, commercial software violates fair use (and often privacy) and fair use violates commercial software's profitability. What we're seeing here is proof of the impracticality of commercial software. A product that is easily reproduced bypassing the vendor simply isn't profitable. Otherwise, I could profit by selling air. Computers make anything digital as readily accessable as air.
What's the solution to this problem? I'll tell you one thing. The solution is most certainly not to suppress fair use rights and sue over copyrights and intellectual property law. The solution is for society to realize that copyright and intellectual property are obsolete concepts. Their continual support by the mainstream serves only to slow the progress of useful science and art.
The Slashdot community understands that and maybe your friends and family understand that, but you'd be surprised how many people in this world really think Gates is a hero of capitalist America who provides a service no one else could have done. There are a LOT of people who REALLY think that.
Exactly. Nobody realizes how much damage MS has done to the computer science industry. All they see is a wildly successful company. Since greed and great wealth is glorious, Gates is worshipped as a hero. Now there's a sociological concept that I hope dies out in the next few generations.
Whoever modded the parent overrated is on crack. That post is a redress of the typical Nigerian scam spam and it's a damn good one at that. Mod parent up.
I'm not seeing why you're having such a hard time with this.
The TOS warp scale is simple. Multiples of the speed of light.
The TNG warp scale operates on scale where the highest number is 10. Warp 10 represents infinite speed, an impossibility. If you graph a function to represent warp speed on the TNG scale, you get an asymptote. No matter how fast you're going, you never can make it to warp 10. Infinite speed is not possible.
I administrate a computer lab in a college and here we use a hardware device per computer which rolls the hard drives back to an image per reboot. This is an efficient way of keeping students from messing up machines. They install a bunch of crap? I just hit reset.
Now, I may run the lab, but I do not have control over which softwares are mandated nor do I have the key to unlock any of these machines. So in order to read Slashdot with Firefox while I'm at work, I either have to install it daily, boot Knoppix daily, or bring my laptop daily.
Then you're missing the point of the analogy. A popular closed source app has many times the exploits than an even more popular open source app. I think that says something profound about how open source in fact contributes to security.
In light of your major dis to Solaris, I should point out to you that Sun/Solaris/Sparc is a favorite across many large corporate deployments. One of my favorite examples is EA. Their Ultima Online servers run a massive distributed Solaris system. A testiment to the power of unix.
I think Linux is fully capable of all this too, but Solaris is by no means shit. It going OSS is a very good thing.
I think this is the most important part about all this. Since iChat is getting Jabber support, that means iChat is getting ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo support as well. Who needs Fire/Adium/Proteus anymore with a Jabbery iChat?
There are browser extensions for IE such as Avant that give it all the features Firefox has. This has, unfortunately, stifled my progress in switching people off IE. It seems these people don't think web standards matter. They use IE because "the websites they go to are more likely to work" which is a symptom of web designers designing solely for IE users. That, and these people only go to "websites they can trust." If you ever want to see some disgusting MS / IE apologist threads, go to the Ars Technica Battlefront forum. It's pretty sad there.
This isn't a hard concept, sparky. TNG canonically changed the scale. At warp 10 they'd be moving at infinite speed. Therefore the warp scale is a curve with an asymptote at 10. Have you taken any algebra classes?
There are two Voyager episodes which claim that. Fury and Drive. They're both wrong. There have been dozens, maybe even hundreds of examples of a ship changing course whilst at warp. Off the top of my head, the first episode of TNG does a full U turn at warp 9.
We're forced to rationalize those technical problems by assuming that it's merely unsafe to turn at warp, especially attemping sharp turns, but not impossible.
Uh, it takes no longer than a few seconds to drop out of warp, plot a new course, and rewarp. I'm not sure where' you're getting this several minute layover.
That, and it's entirely possible to turn a ship at warp. They've done it many times.
but like anybody seriously accepts "Enterprise" as canonical
Enterprise is canon. Books are not. Live with it. My post was not an invitation to mindless Ent bashing. Ent has made mistakes, but so has every other Trek series. You rationalize them or you note them and move on.
According to the first episode of Enterprise, it takes 4 days to reach Kronos at approximately warp 4. That puts the Klingon homeworld only about 1ly away from Earth, which is 4x closer than the nearest star.
Logically, we must assume 1. the episode is wrong (correct assumption) or 2. the Klingon Empire is a LOT closer than you thought, Mr. Vulcan.
CNN's story says the same thing the Yahoo story does. CNN interprets the South Korean report as "it wasn't a nuke" and Yahoo, BBC, etc interepret more objectively. The facts are, we just don't know. And not much else creates a 4km mushroom cloud. Plus the timing is more than convenient for a nuclear test.
This is why I think Bruce should have based UserLinux off of Gentoo. The Gentoo people can continue to release and support their livecd and Bruce can make informed choices for newbies or businesses without using a binary package manager.
Now, I like the idea behind apt. But unless everyone unites behind it, it simply won't work. And isn't working. I switched back to Gentoo out of frustration with apt. Source code is the one standard that all Linux distros support. All software is available in portage due to that. Debian, despite its massive repos, is missing tons of stuff. And is never up to date.
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I wonder whatever happened to ObviousGuy? Is his account still haxxored? I wonder if the admins have looked into this and tried to contact the guy...
I was going to post this but he got to it first. Normally GNAA stuff is unworthy of Slashdot, but that is fucking hilarious! If you don't believe him, go to GNAA's website and read it for yourself.
WYSIWYG. With apt I see outdated, broken, and/or missing packages everywhere. More mature my ass. Source based Linux is far more practical.
.deb, double click install it, and expect it to work.
Apt is great in theory but until all of Linux unites behind it as THE binary standard, its problems will not go away. I'll switch off Gentoo the day I can reliably go to ANY Linux software website, EXPECT a download for a
As it stands, most Linux software is released as source only and it is the distro's responsibility to compile it. Who wants to compile for 5 different binary standards? Source is the unfortunate best way to go in Linux. This is why Gentoo's portage (and BSD's system) shines.
Yeah, cause wanting an easy installer for the world's best source based distro is just wrong! *rolls eyes*
This is why no EULAs work this way if the vendor intends to sue over copyright infringement as a deterrant to piracy. If all software worked as you suggest, piracy would be legal. And if that's the case, why bother developing commercial software in the first place?
As it stands, commercial software violates fair use (and often privacy) and fair use violates commercial software's profitability. What we're seeing here is proof of the impracticality of commercial software. A product that is easily reproduced bypassing the vendor simply isn't profitable. Otherwise, I could profit by selling air. Computers make anything digital as readily accessable as air.
What's the solution to this problem? I'll tell you one thing. The solution is most certainly not to suppress fair use rights and sue over copyrights and intellectual property law. The solution is for society to realize that copyright and intellectual property are obsolete concepts. Their continual support by the mainstream serves only to slow the progress of useful science and art.
And you'd be wrong in all of it.
The Slashdot community understands that and maybe your friends and family understand that, but you'd be surprised how many people in this world really think Gates is a hero of capitalist America who provides a service no one else could have done. There are a LOT of people who REALLY think that.
Exactly. Nobody realizes how much damage MS has done to the computer science industry. All they see is a wildly successful company. Since greed and great wealth is glorious, Gates is worshipped as a hero. Now there's a sociological concept that I hope dies out in the next few generations.
Whoever modded the parent overrated is on crack. That post is a redress of the typical Nigerian scam spam and it's a damn good one at that. Mod parent up.
Do you do searches for mentioning of your name on Slashdot or something? =p
I'm not seeing why you're having such a hard time with this.
The TOS warp scale is simple. Multiples of the speed of light.
The TNG warp scale operates on scale where the highest number is 10. Warp 10 represents infinite speed, an impossibility. If you graph a function to represent warp speed on the TNG scale, you get an asymptote. No matter how fast you're going, you never can make it to warp 10. Infinite speed is not possible.
Does that make more sense now?
I administrate a computer lab in a college and here we use a hardware device per computer which rolls the hard drives back to an image per reboot. This is an efficient way of keeping students from messing up machines. They install a bunch of crap? I just hit reset.
Now, I may run the lab, but I do not have control over which softwares are mandated nor do I have the key to unlock any of these machines. So in order to read Slashdot with Firefox while I'm at work, I either have to install it daily, boot Knoppix daily, or bring my laptop daily.
Sometimes I do that, sometimes I just use IE.
Then you're missing the point of the analogy. A popular closed source app has many times the exploits than an even more popular open source app. I think that says something profound about how open source in fact contributes to security.
In light of your major dis to Solaris, I should point out to you that Sun/Solaris/Sparc is a favorite across many large corporate deployments. One of my favorite examples is EA. Their Ultima Online servers run a massive distributed Solaris system. A testiment to the power of unix.
I think Linux is fully capable of all this too, but Solaris is by no means shit. It going OSS is a very good thing.
I think this is the most important part about all this. Since iChat is getting Jabber support, that means iChat is getting ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo support as well. Who needs Fire/Adium/Proteus anymore with a Jabbery iChat?
There are browser extensions for IE such as Avant that give it all the features Firefox has. This has, unfortunately, stifled my progress in switching people off IE. It seems these people don't think web standards matter. They use IE because "the websites they go to are more likely to work" which is a symptom of web designers designing solely for IE users. That, and these people only go to "websites they can trust." If you ever want to see some disgusting MS / IE apologist threads, go to the Ars Technica Battlefront forum. It's pretty sad there.
This isn't a hard concept, sparky. TNG canonically changed the scale. At warp 10 they'd be moving at infinite speed. Therefore the warp scale is a curve with an asymptote at 10. Have you taken any algebra classes?
There are two Voyager episodes which claim that. Fury and Drive. They're both wrong. There have been dozens, maybe even hundreds of examples of a ship changing course whilst at warp. Off the top of my head, the first episode of TNG does a full U turn at warp 9.
We're forced to rationalize those technical problems by assuming that it's merely unsafe to turn at warp, especially attemping sharp turns, but not impossible.
No, the Klingon homeworld clearly orbits a star. Enterprise's first episode just made a (gross) speed/distance miscalc.
Uh, it takes no longer than a few seconds to drop out of warp, plot a new course, and rewarp. I'm not sure where' you're getting this several minute layover.
That, and it's entirely possible to turn a ship at warp. They've done it many times.
No.
TOS scale is doubling. (Ent uses this scale as well.)
TNG scale is asymptotical to infinte speed.
According to the first episode of Enterprise, it takes 4 days to reach Kronos at approximately warp 4. That puts the Klingon homeworld only about 1ly away from Earth, which is 4x closer than the nearest star.
Logically, we must assume 1. the episode is wrong (correct assumption) or 2. the Klingon Empire is a LOT closer than you thought, Mr. Vulcan.
CNN's story says the same thing the Yahoo story does. CNN interprets the South Korean report as "it wasn't a nuke" and Yahoo, BBC, etc interepret more objectively. The facts are, we just don't know. And not much else creates a 4km mushroom cloud. Plus the timing is more than convenient for a nuclear test.
This is why I think Bruce should have based UserLinux off of Gentoo. The Gentoo people can continue to release and support their livecd and Bruce can make informed choices for newbies or businesses without using a binary package manager.
Now, I like the idea behind apt. But unless everyone unites behind it, it simply won't work. And isn't working. I switched back to Gentoo out of frustration with apt. Source code is the one standard that all Linux distros support. All software is available in portage due to that. Debian, despite its massive repos, is missing tons of stuff. And is never up to date.