1. The realmeme / Meme miner obviously changed their counting method in 2004 somehow... I have no idea how it works, but you can't seriously think that's a natural phenomena, can you?
Can you explain why you chose a single release of Windows and a general name for linux instead of the something like what I proposed? Naturally the next release of anything will be on the rise as a trend...
The Linux curves seem clear, they're indicative of a product which has topped out.
They weren't even found guilty of filesharing: The court threw the copyright infringement charge out becuase there was no proof. They were convicted of "contribution to copyright infringement" (administering the website). This fact was pretty much forgotten by the media, they just put "Filesharers convicted - 400 000 bill" as the title of their news story...
"contribution to copyright infringement" -- well, I guess the Youtube guys are lucky not to live in Finland.
The Tab Mix Plus extension is widely considered to be greatly enhancing to any Firefox experience, alongside extensions like AdBlock Plus and All-In-One Gestures (and similar gesture extensions).
You may have wide statistical evidence to support that, but just in case it was just a data point for your own use pattern, I'd like to offer a counter-example:
I've tried gestures, and I don't like them. I still prefer to use the mouse as little as possible. I'd certainly disable gestures if they we're included
I have no use for Adblock since I run a privoxy server in my home network -- it's a superior setup since the same ad-blocker works for all our browser and computers, including a Nokia 770 running Opera.
I've found Tab mix plus mildly useful, but definitely not "greatly enhancing". And yes, I am a web heavy user.
Been using one for a week and I'd say it's pretty nice. Plays my whole music collection and internet radios. There's also a hifi version for 7 times the money, but I figured you'd appreciate the size of the Squeezebox:)
Try trickle. It won't do fancy stuff like simulating packet loss, but a trickle -d 100 -u 20 -L 50 firefox should limit download, upload and latency rates.
Browsing speed is already insanely fast to the point where if you blink you miss the loading on most connections these day.
Unfortunately that is not true. Many "broadband" connections are definitely not insanely fast, and at least here in Finland the upload speeds of most connections are so pathetic that the problems mentioned in the article are very easily observed.
Slimserver 6.5 works like charm as far as I'm concerned, and it will stay GPL. There's absolutely nothing Logitech can do about that. Additional features are of course nice, but slimserver is "ready enough" that those can be implemented by third parties if Logitech decided to relicense the code...
I don't think that parts are really a major factor in the price in this case... Or are two-bit displays really that expensive?
I'm a little slow at responding...
slimserver 6.5 works like charm as far as I'm concerned, and it will stay GPL. There's absolutely nothing Logitech can do about that. Additional features are of course nice, but slimserver is "ready enough" that those can be implemented by third parties if Logitech decided to relicense the code...
I don't think that parts are really a major factor in the price in this case... Or are two-bit displays really that expensive?
Another vote for Magnatune. From a user/buyer perspective it's a very nice service -- especially now that my new Squeezebox can play the Magnatune catalogue from the net. It doesn't seem too shabby for the artist either.
Where you're getting these ps/2 comliant keyboards that don't work I have no idea... even a £1.99 keyboard I have works fine
Ehh... Let's read the posts too, instead of just answering. The parent didn't mention ps/2 keyboards and neither did the original poster. The only problem explicitly mentioned was one with the usb keyboard -- and don't start denying those, I can personally testify to their existence (both on Windows and linux).
You have to install a compiler, hunt though obscure websites for ages and praying that this driver you have works. I once found myself having to compile my bloody kernel just trying to get a driver to work for my wirelss NIC. It's a joke. Once you have an SP2 install of XP on the go, it takes less that 1 hour to install all the drivers (mobo, graphics card, sound card... and you're done.).
It's great that you have found what works for you. My experiences have been quite different, but I don't think there's much value in upping each others heroic stories about the battles we've had with fearsome operating systems (It quite soon starts to sound like a Monty Python sketch -- "Yeah? Well, when I installed Windows I had to sleep in a hole in the ground, wake up at four and walk 20km uphill to the office."). By the way, this is something that usually improves the level of conversation: avoid exaggerations or generalizations from a small amount of samples. If you read the paragraph you wrote, you'll see that you did both there. It lowers the value of your whole post.
There would have to be a positive correlation between "the group of people who didn't know the answer to question #1" and some other classification (such as "the group of people who are homosexuals"). It would be extremely unlikely as well as extremely difficult to intentionally rig.
Extremely difficult? ok... Let's say you want to rig elections and have a decent budget. you get 4000 people to answer a survey of 1000 questions. One of the questions is "Who are you going to vote?". The correctness of the answers to the 999 other questions will be checked for correlation with the vote-question. Quite probably you are going to find a few questions that correlate in the right direction.
I don't think that would be difficult, and I certainly don't think that would be unlikely -- every party out there would be doing it.
The questions are limited to those that are objective and factual in nature...
Bollocks. Let's say we have two questions that both are answered correctly by the same percentage of people. It's pretty much guaranteed that different groups of people get those questions wrong. By choosing the right questions you can weigh the elections, even if the chosen questions are "objective and factual"...
I don't understand your point... Why would slimserver be forked? Because it's now owned by Logitech? I fail to see the connection...
There is a wired-only squeezebox by the way (https://secure.slimdevices.com/order/index.cgi), but for some reason the resellers don't seem to have it in stock.
The chinese system has always been based on authority, hierarchies and loyalty, which is the opposite of how science works: Science is based on investigation of how the world works and ultimately only accepts the world as an authority.
This is the key to understanding why Europe and the western economy/culture rose to the position it is in. It's such a powerful invention that it's also something everyone else will have to copy (as they pretty much already have) to stay competitive.
For what it's worth, my home XP box downloaded 7 of the possible 26 patches. That's 19 patches that I didn't even need. Not too bad. And much better than having download the updated ftpd, or httpd, or [insert exploited daemon here] source and manually compile it.
I get the feeling that was supposed to be a jab at linux. It's a lousy one. A typical desktop linux install does not have httpd or ftpd installed and things most definitely aren't compiled from source -- in fact update systems in linux are in some aspects superior as they take care of all software on the machine.
Be proud of your tools of choice, if that's important to you. Don't make asinine comments about things you don't know about. (and that goes for all sides in this flamefest)
We do use GPL'ed stuff, but as a business person I prefer almost any other major open source license (Apache, BSD, Artistic, etc.)
Ok. You referred to some unspecified legal problems regarding GPL before that paragraph, so I assume your business decisions were based on those fears... Could you explain how any other open source license is better?
Also, you describe GPLv3 as totally unsuitable for business use, but do not back the claim in any way. At least point out which clause you think rules out using GPL v3 in a business?
Would some one please explain what exactly it wrong with DRM? If you have a problem with concept of copyrights in general, then I can understand. But is there anyone out there that is cool with copyrights, but thinks DRM is bad?
I think that copyright is a good idea and that we currently have a working implementation of it (although some aspects like "life+70" are just plain wrong). I also think that the basic idea of DRM is very cool. I'm not convinced that it can be implemented without very, very bad side effects though -- a bit like benevolent dictatorship: It would be the most efficient form of rule by far, but it's also prone to failure and very difficult to fix if it does fail...
Can explain your train of thought here? I thought what happened was this:
Debian wants to be able to make changes to stuff they distribute (they distribute free software so that shouldn't be a big surprise).
Mozilla tells Debian they can't use the logos if they make changes -- Debian stops using the logos
Mozilla tells Debian they can't use the name if they make changes -- Debian stops using the name
Debian seems to do exactly what Mozilla asks, so I have to conclude that you think that the first point is what is anal about Debian -- the fact that they actually want to use the rights "software freedom" gives us... What is so wrong with that, and how can you be "for free software" and oppose what Debian is doing here?
I've been a Debian supporter for a long time, but when Firefox is no longer called Firefox I will no longer be a supporter. With the more practical Ubuntu around, it's not a hard decision to make.
Heh. Ubuntu is committed to being a free software distribution, and so far the definition of free software has been DFSG-free. So don't hold your breath waiting for Firefox on future Ubuntu versions.
What worries me more is about their preparations for the journey, astronauts spend years preparing to go into space and now it is being treated like a long-haul flight for some, I'm sure they will have some training but are they sure it is enough for the kind of forces that their body is going to experience while taking off?
A) They won't be going to space in the sense that astronauts (and especially some cosmonauts) have been. It's just a few minutes of staying at a considerable height...
B) The virgin spaceship is not a rocket. Takeoff should not be a bad experience.
I haven't "acted like Linux has the ultimate package management". I only discussed central package management vs. every-program-for-itself method. I'm fully aware that the package management solutions available
in Linux are not perfect (in fact I think they're in many situations quite broken). That shouldn't stop me from criticizing something I believe is inferior from the get-go, should it?
Actually most programs today on Windows check for updates and / or install them themselves. Acrobat does this, Firefox does this, Windows itself does this.
...and ad-aware, and Thunderbird, and Nero, etc. That was the problem I was addressing -- how is the user supposed to remember how and if specific programs are updated?
I can't speak for other programs, but I know that my updates are safe.
I'm sure your program is very secure since you said so, but what about the hundred others? Are their updates signed? How is the user supposed to evaluate that?
I'd also point out though that package managers on linux also suffer similar problems. I would have loved to just click a button to update. It was never that simple. Usually, I had to install updates from their source. Now THAT'S a great user experience, huh?
Package management model naturally breaks if you want something not yet available in the repositories, this is the achilles heel of course... The good thing is that in that situation you can install software with whatever method you like: binary installer blobs or compiling from source -- just like on the every-program-for-itself install method. What's your point?
"Easier", huh? Opera is the king in embedded/small form factor devices and porting anything gecko-based to devices like that has proved problematic -- the only platform that Minimo is actually used on is AFAIK Windows Mobile...
If you have some secret knowledge to support that "easier" part, spit it out.
You are terribly naive. In the real world helping people is not so easy.
He didn't say it would be easy, that was your addition -- makes your argument easier, I guess.
Saudi Arabia is a rich country that produced some well off people who nevertheless climbed into a plane to attack the US. This alone invalidates your statement. This is not about poverty. It's about cultural hate and jealousy. Helping people will only make them resent you more in this case.
So... Nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure?
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1. The realmeme / Meme miner obviously changed their counting method in 2004 somehow... I have no idea how it works, but you can't seriously think that's a natural phenomena, can you?
2. The google trend and blogpulse curves compare Vista and Linux... apples and oranges, I'd say.
Let's try something a little more comparable: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux%2C+windows
Or let's do another apples to oranges comparison: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+vista
Can you explain why you chose a single release of Windows and a general name for linux instead of the something like what I proposed? Naturally the next release of anything will be on the rise as a trend...
If linux was a product, yes.
They weren't even found guilty of filesharing: The court threw the copyright infringement charge out becuase there was no proof. They were convicted of "contribution to copyright infringement" (administering the website). This fact was pretty much forgotten by the media, they just put "Filesharers convicted - 400 000 bill" as the title of their news story...
"contribution to copyright infringement" -- well, I guess the Youtube guys are lucky not to live in Finland.
You may have wide statistical evidence to support that, but just in case it was just a data point for your own use pattern, I'd like to offer a counter-example:
Slimdevices Squeezebox: http://slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html
Been using one for a week and I'd say it's pretty nice. Plays my whole music collection and internet radios. There's also a hifi version for 7 times the money, but I figured you'd appreciate the size of the Squeezebox:)
Try trickle. It won't do fancy stuff like simulating packet loss, but a
trickle -d 100 -u 20 -L 50 firefox
should limit download, upload and latency rates.
Let me try that again with formatting:
I'm a little slow at responding...
Slimserver 6.5 works like charm as far as I'm concerned, and it will stay GPL. There's absolutely nothing Logitech can do about that. Additional features are of course nice, but slimserver is "ready enough" that those can be implemented by third parties if Logitech decided to relicense the code...
I don't think that parts are really a major factor in the price in this case... Or are two-bit displays really that expensive?
I'm a little slow at responding... slimserver 6.5 works like charm as far as I'm concerned, and it will stay GPL. There's absolutely nothing Logitech can do about that. Additional features are of course nice, but slimserver is "ready enough" that those can be implemented by third parties if Logitech decided to relicense the code... I don't think that parts are really a major factor in the price in this case... Or are two-bit displays really that expensive?
Another vote for Magnatune. From a user/buyer perspective it's a very nice service -- especially now that my new Squeezebox can play the Magnatune catalogue from the net. It doesn't seem too shabby for the artist either.
Ehh... Have you noticed how difficult parsing most of those languages is for computers? Try Babelfish for some entertainment.
Arrogance my ass. If HTML taught us one things, it should be that in this case consistency is really, really important.
Ehh... Let's read the posts too, instead of just answering. The parent didn't mention ps/2 keyboards and neither did the original poster. The only problem explicitly mentioned was one with the usb keyboard -- and don't start denying those, I can personally testify to their existence (both on Windows and linux).
It's great that you have found what works for you. My experiences have been quite different, but I don't think there's much value in upping each others heroic stories about the battles we've had with fearsome operating systems (It quite soon starts to sound like a Monty Python sketch -- "Yeah? Well, when I installed Windows I had to sleep in a hole in the ground, wake up at four and walk 20km uphill to the office."). By the way, this is something that usually improves the level of conversation: avoid exaggerations or generalizations from a small amount of samples. If you read the paragraph you wrote, you'll see that you did both there. It lowers the value of your whole post.
Extremely difficult? ok... Let's say you want to rig elections and have a decent budget. you get 4000 people to answer a survey of 1000 questions. One of the questions is "Who are you going to vote?". The correctness of the answers to the 999 other questions will be checked for correlation with the vote-question. Quite probably you are going to find a few questions that correlate in the right direction.
I don't think that would be difficult, and I certainly don't think that would be unlikely -- every party out there would be doing it.
Bollocks. Let's say we have two questions that both are answered correctly by the same percentage of people. It's pretty much guaranteed that different groups of people get those questions wrong. By choosing the right questions you can weigh the elections, even if the chosen questions are "objective and factual"...
There is a wired-only squeezebox by the way (https://secure.slimdevices.com/order/index.cgi), but for some reason the resellers don't seem to have it in stock.
The article is not about dual-booting, it's about virtual servers (which no doubt are mostly used on servers).
This is the key to understanding why Europe and the western economy/culture rose to the position it is in. It's such a powerful invention that it's also something everyone else will have to copy (as they pretty much already have) to stay competitive.
I get the feeling that was supposed to be a jab at linux. It's a lousy one. A typical desktop linux install does not have httpd or ftpd installed and things most definitely aren't compiled from source -- in fact update systems in linux are in some aspects superior as they take care of all software on the machine.
Be proud of your tools of choice, if that's important to you. Don't make asinine comments about things you don't know about. (and that goes for all sides in this flamefest)
Ok. You referred to some unspecified legal problems regarding GPL before that paragraph, so I assume your business decisions were based on those fears... Could you explain how any other open source license is better?
Also, you describe GPLv3 as totally unsuitable for business use, but do not back the claim in any way. At least point out which clause you think rules out using GPL v3 in a business?
I think that copyright is a good idea and that we currently have a working implementation of it (although some aspects like "life+70" are just plain wrong). I also think that the basic idea of DRM is very cool. I'm not convinced that it can be implemented without very, very bad side effects though -- a bit like benevolent dictatorship: It would be the most efficient form of rule by far, but it's also prone to failure and very difficult to fix if it does fail...
- Debian wants to be able to make changes to stuff they distribute (they distribute free software so that shouldn't be a big surprise).
-
Mozilla tells Debian they can't use the logos if they make changes -- Debian stops using the logos
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Mozilla tells Debian they can't use the name if they make changes -- Debian stops using the name
Debian seems to do exactly what Mozilla asks, so I have to conclude that you think that the first point is what is anal about Debian -- the fact that they actually want to use the rights "software freedom" gives us... What is so wrong with that, and how can you be "for free software" and oppose what Debian is doing here?Heh. Ubuntu is committed to being a free software distribution, and so far the definition of free software has been DFSG-free. So don't hold your breath waiting for Firefox on future Ubuntu versions.
A) They won't be going to space in the sense that astronauts (and especially some cosmonauts) have been. It's just a few minutes of staying at a considerable height...
B) The virgin spaceship is not a rocket. Takeoff should not be a bad experience.
If you have some secret knowledge to support that "easier" part, spit it out.