Linux is far more successful on the server side, and yet depends on numerous competing solutions such as MySQL/Postgress, Perl/Python, EXT3/JFS/XFS, etc.
You may point out that large companies support development useful for the back end, while the desktop languishes in obscurity. Perhaps that is actually the problem. If open source desktop software development received more attention, there would probably be an application conforming to nearly any taste.
It's possible that people simply have a finite amount of thought available per unit time and that this thought is already being completely expended Have you ever been compelled to work when you would rather have been watching TV? Did the additional work retroactively destroy earlier work?
More to the point, surely the amount of time you engage in non-passive activities varies over both short and long term intervals. For example, many watch more TV in the summer than during the school year. Does the ability to toil diminish in the summer? You could argue that students would burn out without a multiple month vacation - but summer break doesn't exist in many countries.
That mental effort is interchangeable. This should be obviously false, not just unproven. It should be clear to anyone who has interacted with humans that when any kind of goal is at stake, some people's brains are vastly more effective at reaching it than others. Imagine how many potential Einsteins wasted their lives watching TV...
On a charter cable connection in St. Louis, I find that my download speeds are dependent on the upstream speed of the peer on the other side of the connection. When I grab stuff from good mirrors, I am accustomed to seeing a steady 6 megabits, regardless of time of day. To my knowledge, charter performs no shaping nor reset forgery.
So, essentially, comcast sucks so hard that they have to break their network to save it. They're fucked; find a new ISP.
now you'll never know how Battlestar Galactica turns out The OP claims that he cancelled his Comcast service, and yet he has a connection with which to post to Slashdot. He could use this same connection to torrent battlestar galactica, no?
You've been watching too much fox news. US abdication of the rule of law frees other nations to be equally lawless. Antigua may now completely ignore US IP regulation, representing a direct economic attack against US interests.
Like yourself, the morons in the US administration have little appreciation for the benefits of the rule of law and fail to acknowledge the many benefits it continues to deliver. Instead they belittle it and attack everything that makes this nation respectable, secure and prosperous. Frankly, it's one of the many reasons that the Bush administration is so widely despised.
I don't think that's flamebait at all: US corps act in their own interest exclusively, with no concern for "fairness". The comment to which you reply and the article both bemoan the US government's failure to uphold valid international judgments that happen to go against US companies. This isn't about fairness - failure to abide by WTO judgments certainly represents treaty violation and, by definition, infringes upon international law.
Above all else, the US government is obligated to obey by the rule of law.
the "US government" isn't a person, it's composed of people who are just trying to do what's best for their campaign contributers. No. I'm sorry; the US government is not the fucking mafia. Corporations may lobby the government to do anything whatsoever, but the government must stop short of doing those things that are illegal.
I hope I've managed to put this into better context for you. To reiterate:
Legal: US may do. Illegal: US MAY NOT DO.
One more time: No. The answer to illegal requests is always no, and it doesn't matter who the fuck is asking. If it does, it's a crime.
It starts getting creepy when you realize that Google seems to work very hard to keep their employees inside the google campus as much as possible, how secretive their operations are (seriously, nobody can compete with them anymore- it's not like they're guarding the henhouse for competition reasons) and how cult-like the atmosphere is More sympathetically: if you keep the workers at work, they work more. However, I can't discount your view completely. Perhaps they really are preparing their worker bees for the transfer to the comet hale bop UFO, and if you are correct, they'd want to hold those workers close to their incorporeal breast so that word of this lunacy doesn't spread beyond the compound confines.
I emailed a link to a wiki I had just set up to 3 people, two of whom had Gmail accounts. A spider from Google hit the page... Oh my gord. They sent a digital arachnid!?
Hint: why do you think Google has so many PhDs? I don't know. Because they're employing Dr. Evil(s)?
it's reporting on Apple being evil just like microsoft Get real. Apple not only documented the issue the article author is complaining about, but Apple also offers a work around. The author even links to it! I'd like to say that he's ignorant, but he clearly knows better. Perhaps he wants to sell advertisements. Who the fuck knows? In any case, I'm comfortable labeling this particular article a troll.
Why? The AC is totally, completely full of shit. Your comment is at 1, his is at 5. You could explain why he wrong, provided that you aren't full of shit. Right now the consensus is that, being full of shit, you should fuck off at the earliest available opportunity. Thanks for your input, though. Better luck next time.
I'm not saying that MS and Silverlight are the answer, but having accountable support (for what it may be worth) is a nice ace to have in your pocket. It sure beats the atypical RTFM Fortunately, your complaints do not apply as (1) IBM, Red Hat and a multitude of other respected, competent companies support open source software (2) many of Silverlight's viable competitors, although they have some support in the open source world, are generally closed solutions supported by the companies that develop them.
I and many of my geek friends would have a hard time proving our innocence if such accusations were leveled against us.
Imagine if they looked in our basements... I can hear the cross examiner already: "sir, can you explain to us what made you so angry that you shot this Compaq server 382 times with a.22 rifle? Do you usually shoot things that annoy you? You said that computers are important to you - so important that you like to shoot them repeatedly. Was your wife important to you? Did she sometimes annoy you? No further questions."
Fortunately, we are innocent until proven guilty...
This documentation that we're being made to write is how the data structures look, *on disk* How is a third party supposed to read a file format without knowing about that file's on disk structure?
You guys could have written good specs and straightforward formats and saved yourselves endless grief. But no, you fucked yourself up the ass, created the excel 100k bug, invested god only knows how many man-centuries of work tending to BS obfuscated formats that you now must finally document. Tough cookie.
Eight different tools to accomplish a task is the dream of every employee on a project deadline. You have to run three different commands to write, compile and execute an application in the command line?
Yes, I'm sure that this strikes fear into the hearts of Visual Studio users everywhere.
Sir, I am now enlightened. Do you say this a lot? It's painfully trite...
The Treasury pays off its loans from the Fed, resulting in money evaporating from the Reserve Banking system entirely! The Fed pays somebody in order to relieve bond obligations - that somebody is then free to spend or lend the capital remitted by the Fed. If that somebody is a bank, it can leverage it to buy many times what the Fed payed back. It could even buy loans in USDs from China, which would increase the utility provided by that currency without involving the Fed.
nor even money that must ever be paid back!Please elaborate!
There turned out to be no third parties who wanted that. What is Sun's answer? Do the exact opposite.
That's right! Sun is going to buy computing time from other people. Their HQ is going to be like a giant Net PC or something. It'll be frickin awesome! And just as profitable as the last initiative was money-losing.
So much anti-anti-windows/anti-anti-ms mentality. I mean, I've listen to this for since Windows 1.0.
Windows OS is like a yugo. -It might not be the safest way to travel, provided that it even starts at all. -It might immolate you spontaneously, but at least nobody will bother stealing it from you. -There are plenty of other ways to travel besides it, should you actually want to go anywhere today.
But when it comes down to it, everyone is going to make stupid, trollish car analogies.
But if I was asked to build a large web based app with a rich-client feel and given the choice of Flash and Silverlight, not having ever tried either, I'd feel a lot better about the latter than I do the former. You'd try it, and they'd tell you to use flash. This is just like XPS. Never heard of XPS? Here, I'll find you a PDF document describing it...
OSX is also a big DRM supporter In what sense? Apple tries to keep OS X from running on clones in various ways - are you objecting to their use of EFI?
Are you referring to the Windows-also iTunes DRM? Is OS X a big DRM supporter in that it lacks a protected media obfuscation path similar to that of Vista?
Honestly, I'd like to know what you're talking about.
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Linux is far more successful on the server side, and yet depends on numerous competing solutions such as MySQL/Postgress, Perl/Python, EXT3/JFS/XFS, etc.
You may point out that large companies support development useful for the back end, while the desktop languishes in obscurity. Perhaps that is actually the problem. If open source desktop software development received more attention, there would probably be an application conforming to nearly any taste.
More to the point, surely the amount of time you engage in non-passive activities varies over both short and long term intervals. For example, many watch more TV in the summer than during the school year. Does the ability to toil diminish in the summer? You could argue that students would burn out without a multiple month vacation - but summer break doesn't exist in many countries. That mental effort is interchangeable. This should be obviously false, not just unproven. It should be clear to anyone who has interacted with humans that when any kind of goal is at stake, some people's brains are vastly more effective at reaching it than others. Imagine how many potential Einsteins wasted their lives watching TV...
I for one am less annoyed than I otherwise would have been.
Thanks, Microsoft?
On a charter cable connection in St. Louis, I find that my download speeds are dependent on the upstream speed of the peer on the other side of the connection. When I grab stuff from good mirrors, I am accustomed to seeing a steady 6 megabits, regardless of time of day. To my knowledge, charter performs no shaping nor reset forgery.
So, essentially, comcast sucks so hard that they have to break their network to save it. They're fucked; find a new ISP.
You've been watching too much fox news. US abdication of the rule of law frees other nations to be equally lawless. Antigua may now completely ignore US IP regulation, representing a direct economic attack against US interests.
Like yourself, the morons in the US administration have little appreciation for the benefits of the rule of law and fail to acknowledge the many benefits it continues to deliver. Instead they belittle it and attack everything that makes this nation respectable, secure and prosperous. Frankly, it's one of the many reasons that the Bush administration is so widely despised.
Above all else, the US government is obligated to obey by the rule of law. the "US government" isn't a person, it's composed of people who are just trying to do what's best for their campaign contributers. No. I'm sorry; the US government is not the fucking mafia. Corporations may lobby the government to do anything whatsoever, but the government must stop short of doing those things that are illegal.
I hope I've managed to put this into better context for you. To reiterate:
Legal: US may do.
Illegal: US MAY NOT DO.
One more time: No. The answer to illegal requests is always no, and it doesn't matter who the fuck is asking. If it does, it's a crime.
any questions?
Ever heard of Flash?
I and many of my geek friends would have a hard time proving our innocence if such accusations were leveled against us.
.22 rifle? Do you usually shoot things that annoy you? You said that computers are important to you - so important that you like to shoot them repeatedly. Was your wife important to you? Did she sometimes annoy you? No further questions."
Imagine if they looked in our basements... I can hear the cross examiner already: "sir, can you explain to us what made you so angry that you shot this Compaq server 382 times with a
Fortunately, we are innocent until proven guilty...
You guys could have written good specs and straightforward formats and saved yourselves endless grief. But no, you fucked yourself up the ass, created the excel 100k bug, invested god only knows how many man-centuries of work tending to BS obfuscated formats that you now must finally document. Tough cookie.
Yes, I'm sure that this strikes fear into the hearts of Visual Studio users everywhere. Sir, I am now enlightened. Do you say this a lot? It's painfully trite...
Even in the most benign context that could possibly exist, the implications are unthinkable.
If Microsoft isn't safe for your kids, who are they safe for? (microsoft = evil)
Why wasn't it in original parallel ATA? 2 more ATA-66 pins would be a mere 2.5% pin count increase, whereas here it is a 40% increase!
we can keep one off uranus?!
Remember when third parties were going to buy computing time from Sun?
There turned out to be no third parties who wanted that. What is Sun's answer? Do the exact opposite.
That's right! Sun is going to buy computing time from other people. Their HQ is going to be like a giant Net PC or something. It'll be frickin awesome! And just as profitable as the last initiative was money-losing.
So much anti-anti-windows/anti-anti-ms mentality. I mean, I've listen to this for since Windows 1.0.
Windows OS is like a yugo.
-It might not be the safest way to travel, provided that it even starts at all.
-It might immolate you spontaneously, but at least nobody will bother stealing it from you.
-There are plenty of other ways to travel besides it, should you actually want to go anywhere today.
But when it comes down to it, everyone is going to make stupid, trollish car analogies.
Another article on this double ring find.
Are you referring to the Windows-also iTunes DRM? Is OS X a big DRM supporter in that it lacks a protected media obfuscation path similar to that of Vista?
Honestly, I'd like to know what you're talking about.