That's a nice metaphor too. However, it does not refer to the same things as Cathedral vs Bazaar. C&B is about the development process, not about the virtues of OSS in general.
Don't want to nitpick, but European spy satellites have been up there for a while already. The Helios program launhed its first satellite in 1995. There are probably other programs too -- I'm no expert, just happened to remember this one.
I wish I hadn't used my mod points already... You've hit the nail on the head:
1. Wikipedia is not a conventional dictionary, and we shouldn't think of it as such.
2. However, to bash any encyclopedia because it's not 100% accurate after just a few years of writing, is just stupid. His example of an article that has worsened over time can be countered with thousands of examples of articles getting better and better.
Let's give it ten years - wikipedia still won't be a conventional dictionary, but I bet it'll be respectable source by then...
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You've got a good point there, but I just wanted to point out that if a six week crunch is customary, then 'everyone' definitely does not know that crunch time is bad... A missed deadline once in a while is perfectly understandable, but missing DLs on every project means that they were actually planned that way. Don't fool yourself.
Nope, that's an even grander parent (you've been fooled by the thread mode hiding some posts and still showing their children). The post I replied to is #10795591.
The one you missed was Vatican (not member of the UN).
But I bet they're counting top level domains, not actual countries. That would mean a maximum of 247, including internet superpowers such as Ascension Island and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
This is really off-topic, but was there really a time when there were more Macintosh viruses than DOS/Windows ones?
AFAIK, the first viruses were spotted in 85-86 and they were on dos. The first 2-3 years were pretty quiet (well, there was the Robert Morris internet worm).
Then in the beginning of the 90s or so there were Brain, the Jerusalem-family, Michelangelo, and most notably the first kits, Dark Avenger and VCL. All for DOS/Windows. According to my memory, at this time viruses were already 'Microsoft country'.
So was the Mac virus hegemony between these periods, or does one of us have a memory fault?
In my opinion the credit system is not a bad idea, considering the complexity of the problem. Could you elaborate what you mean by 'real targets', how it would not be possible to weasel out of those targets? Also, how are you thinking of magically applying it to all countries?
The current Kyoto model does redistribute wealth, but I do understand the point the developing countries are making: The developed countries have been polluting for the last 50 years, and saying "polluting stops now, 'cause it's bad, mmkay?" is really just preventing the developing countries from reaching us (or that's how they will see it). I agree with them that a longer period of deployment is appropriate for the developing countries.
You're making a very good argument. I'm just wondering why didn't Bush and company use your argument instead of saying "we are 100% certain they've got WMD"?
Why did they lie, Can we trust them not to lie again - these are the real questions.
One I've noticed recently - I've hardly seen an obvious FrontPage site in months. Either people who started building websites which look less "frontpage like" or it's not being used as much.
Not necessarily related, but the last version of FP is a lot better than the previous ones - I guess the MS Frontpage team got tired of being the laughing stock of the web dev community...
According to this pdf, the source of those numbers is "An experiment on unit increase in program complexity", S.N.Woodfield, IEEE-Software Eng., vol-SE5, no 2, pp. 76-79, 1979.
Haven't read it, so I've no idea if Woodfield just made them up or if you just lost a fistful of Quatloos.
The IOC (AFAIK) isn't based in any one country, so where would the lawsuits take place?
Under what laws would competitors be held liable?
I have no idea where possible lawsuits would take place, but I can tell you that every legal entity is based somewhere: IOC happens to have their HQ in Lausanne, so I'd guess they operate under Swiss laws.
As far as I understand, Joe GPS has absolutely no use for this. But a bored (and skilled) developer might be able to combine GPSTk, a PDA and some cheap radio component to create a (kind of) software-GPS. At least that's how I understood it.
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I fully agree, but your example just plain sucks: A car navigation system is definitely not the cars UI...
That's a nice metaphor too. However, it does not refer to the same things as Cathedral vs Bazaar. C&B is about the development process, not about the virtues of OSS in general.
Well, last time I checked potentially violates and violates mean two different things...
Don't want to nitpick, but European spy satellites have been up there for a while already. The Helios program launhed its first satellite in 1995. There are probably other programs too -- I'm no expert, just happened to remember this one.
Doh, typical word blindness for me - I do that in my native language as well. Really annoying.
1. Wikipedia is not a conventional dictionary, and we shouldn't think of it as such.
2. However, to bash any encyclopedia because it's not 100% accurate after just a few years of writing, is just stupid. His example of an article that has worsened over time can be countered with thousands of examples of articles getting better and better.
Let's give it ten years - wikipedia still won't be a conventional dictionary, but I bet it'll be respectable source by then...
You've got a good point there, but I just wanted to point out that if a six week crunch is customary, then 'everyone' definitely does not know that crunch time is bad... A missed deadline once in a while is perfectly understandable, but missing DLs on every project means that they were actually planned that way. Don't fool yourself.
Nope, that's an even grander parent (you've been fooled by the thread mode hiding some posts and still showing their children). The post I replied to is #10795591.
Sorry, but your test doesn't relly tell anything.
iexplore.exe is just a wrapper - look at the executable file size to see for yourself.
Did you read all of the 20 words he wrote? ;)
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What would the sentence be? 20 to life?
But I bet they're counting top level domains, not actual countries. That would mean a maximum of 247, including internet superpowers such as Ascension Island and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
AFAIK, the first viruses were spotted in 85-86 and they were on dos. The first 2-3 years were pretty quiet (well, there was the Robert Morris internet worm).
Then in the beginning of the 90s or so there were Brain, the Jerusalem-family, Michelangelo, and most notably the first kits, Dark Avenger and VCL. All for DOS/Windows. According to my memory, at this time viruses were already 'Microsoft country'.
So was the Mac virus hegemony between these periods, or does one of us have a memory fault?
The current Kyoto model does redistribute wealth, but I do understand the point the developing countries are making: The developed countries have been polluting for the last 50 years, and saying "polluting stops now, 'cause it's bad, mmkay?" is really just preventing the developing countries from reaching us (or that's how they will see it). I agree with them that a longer period of deployment is appropriate for the developing countries.
Why did they lie, Can we trust them not to lie again - these are the real questions.
TIFF supports using different compressions including jpeg (not all programs accept unusual choices though). That could be the reason.
Not necessarily related, but the last version of FP is a lot better than the previous ones - I guess the MS Frontpage team got tired of being the laughing stock of the web dev community...
Haven't read it, so I've no idea if Woodfield just made them up or if you just lost a fistful of Quatloos.
I have no idea where possible lawsuits would take place, but I can tell you that every legal entity is based somewhere: IOC happens to have their HQ in Lausanne, so I'd guess they operate under Swiss laws.
Branding Firefox 1.0 will be called simply "Mozilla Firefox"... or "Firefox" for short. Version details will be displayed in the About box.
So the product name is Mozilla Firefox.
I do not think pyramid scam means what you think it means.
GPSTk might eventually mean cheaper (possibly pc based) GPS, but you'll still need two receivers for diff GPS...
As far as I understand, Joe GPS has absolutely no use for this. But a bored (and skilled) developer might be able to combine GPSTk, a PDA and some cheap radio component to create a (kind of) software-GPS. At least that's how I understood it.