png is far better than jpeg for images with lots of gradients and solid colors like screenshots than. Compare similarly sized screenshots using png and jpg -- jpg will be full of artifacting.
If you were complaining about someone using pngs for photographs you'd have a point.
Do you fucking job people. How fucking long would it take you douchenozzles to take 10 minutes to read the article, do a little cross-checking and determine if the summary/story/headline is outrageously mischaracterizing the events that happened?
I understand that sensationalist headlines are probably being used, to some degree, to get clicks -- but there are enough interesting stories out there that you don't need to outright lie. Much more of this and I'm not even going to check my/. rss feed anymore.
I agree with about the first 1/2 of what you said, and then it all goes downhill.
When the non-aligned movement began the developing world recognized the value of cooperation immensely. Unfortunately the Western economic, military and intelligence powers did everything they could to bring disunity and disturbance to any area that got their shit together but had an economic system that didn't favor western business.
Informative? Give me a break. Just as much spam comes from European and American sources. Honestly if some guy in a developing country can outwit someone in a developed country who had top educational resources and economic opportunities, more power to them. Europe and America has been scamming developing countries for ages.
Sadly you're pretty much correct. Slashdot's moderation system sounds like a good idea at first, and surely takes a lot off the work load of the/. staff (just what the hell do those guys do anyway?), but ultimately it's a system that reinforces the dominant opinions. Someone posts comment, is modded up, gets mod points, mods up similar opinions, etc.
Ideally people would be modded based on _how_ they say it, but too many times that just isn't the case.
Apple isn't going to lose any hardware sales off of this -- people buy Macs for the whole package experience, not to install operating systems, and don't really mind the lock-in, probably aren't even aware of it.
Apple is going to gain software sales off of this from people who otherwise wouldn't buy Macs because of the lock-in.
I very, very rarely come across something that I can't get from the official debian repositories. The non-free repos take care of most of the codec issues.
You're right that these apps are compiled by someone else. The nice thing with repositories is that if something is found to be malware it will be automatically updated for me on my next apt-get update/upgrade. I don't need to go to the particular vendor's site and download an update.
Also there is some degree of accountability and ease of reporting-- if the Debian repos were found to be poisoned with some amount of malware I'd be aware of it from being on a single mailing list (and probably this would be fixed/removed with a daily update before I'd even know about it). On the other hand, if one of my shareware apps on my windows box turns out to be malware I may or may not hear about it. I probably only would if either it were huge news or I was signed up to a lot of windows security lists and actually read every single report, which frankly I don't have time for.
You're right -- an apt frontend that had that functionality would be really cool.
One of my main problems with just installing stuff from various sources is having 100 different pieces of software checking for updates in different ways, that's just ridiculous.
Personally I'm very wary of installing random non-open-source apps on my desktop. I feel a lot better about something that is in the main Debian repository and more or less gpl compatible.
Hell, check out that daemon tools page you linked:
"Dear DAEMON Community,
it come to our attention that someone released a fake DT PRO version that is contaminated with trojans and viruses, among the fact it is only a DT Lite and not a PRO version!
We cant underscore enough how important it is that you always download from our official sites and affiliates!
Nowadays, and with the popularity of DAEMON Tools, it is not unusual to see such attempts to harm others (and, after all, also our reputation). Rest assured: we double-check all uploads to our official sites and frequently check them further to make sure you get no harmfull viruses/trojans!"
Frankly just googling and then downloading stuff that looks like it could help is bound to lead to a malware infested computer. One of the very clear things that good Linux distros have over Windows is the use of a centralized software repository.
Thanks for the non-answer. I seriously was wondering why, in this person's case, a set of vms wouldn't work. I can imagine if you need to stress test things with real connections with limited bandwidth, but even that could be emulated.
Why wouldn't you just get a semi-decent machine and run a bunch of virtual machines on it? Seems a hell of a lot more practical and easy to administrate, not to mention economical in terms of power usage.
[quote] A BSCS is as difficult to get as degree in engineering, but as worthless as a degree in liberal arts. [/quote] I'm calling bullshit on this. Most good schools have a 3.0 requirement for engineering students to stay in the program, most CS programs are under the general 2.0 barrier.
Ugh. That reminds me. The other day at work I installed aol's aim client because a chat room had been set up to communicate while we went through some procedures (I usually just use gmail for chat). Suddenly Firefox's home page had been changed to aol.com, I had a hideous toolbar and some crappy chat bots added in my gmail chat list. Christ. Fuck this company.
"There are some exceptions, of course, like apache, and linux is obviously successful in the server market. However, the notion that any commercial products are having a hard time "competing with free" is bass ackwards."
You act as if the server market is a tiny exception. It's pretty large. Last time I checked many of the largest IT companies in the world run massive numbers of machines using FOSS. Of course many people don't use linux directly on their desktop, but you can bet they are using it indirectly via google/yahoo/etc.
The fact is FOSS is providing massive competition -- it is being backed by some of the largest companies in the world and is scaring the shit out of others.
This is yet another reason I refuse to purchase an Apple product.
I'm glad they are making some contributions to open source. That's lovely. I'm also glad they abandoned their mess of an operating system for something unix based -- I find it a lot easier to help out friends with their computers now, if they are Mac users. I even for some time recommended to friends / family that they get Macs.
However I will never allow myself to give this company any money. They do a pretty good job of masking their ridiculous greed and destruction with a slick PR campaign, but some of us are still not fooled. It's interesting that Apple was born out of the hobbyist computing community, yet is continously the one stomping on the little guy hardware/software hacker these days. Apple has absolutely no interest in openness, other than when it helps their bottom line -- if they only had the power and money of Microsoft they'd likely be even worse, considering Jobs' ridiculous Messiah complex and the number of idiots who buy into it.
With this solution and the other you're degrading the quality of the recording. FUck that. If I purchase a song I should be able to play it whenever I want on whatever device I want without having to waste a cdr, jump through any hoops or degrade the recording.
Slashdot Mirror
"Ironic that at one time The Beatles claimed they were bigger than Jesus."
Ehm. Quite out of context, 'ron.
Now we have another tool to isolate people in their echo chambers!
Economics.
Forgive me I'm a fucking idiot :)
png is far better than jpeg for images with lots of gradients and solid colors like screenshots than. Compare similarly sized screenshots using png and jpg -- jpg will be full of artifacting.
If you were complaining about someone using pngs for photographs you'd have a point.
Uh. Use a search engine? Or something like news.google.com ?
Do you fucking job people. How fucking long would it take you douchenozzles to take 10 minutes to read the article, do a little cross-checking and determine if the summary/story/headline is outrageously mischaracterizing the events that happened?
I understand that sensationalist headlines are probably being used, to some degree, to get clicks -- but there are enough interesting stories out there that you don't need to outright lie. Much more of this and I'm not even going to check my /. rss feed anymore.
I agree with about the first 1/2 of what you said, and then it all goes downhill.
When the non-aligned movement began the developing world recognized the value of cooperation immensely. Unfortunately the Western economic, military and intelligence powers did everything they could to bring disunity and disturbance to any area that got their shit together but had an economic system that didn't favor western business.
Informative? Give me a break. Just as much spam comes from European and American sources. Honestly if some guy in a developing country can outwit someone in a developed country who had top educational resources and economic opportunities, more power to them. Europe and America has been scamming developing countries for ages.
Ah yes -- as it's been said, the trains always ran on time under Mussolini and the legislative bodies always adjourned on time under Stalin.
Sadly you're pretty much correct. Slashdot's moderation system sounds like a good idea at first, and surely takes a lot off the work load of the /. staff (just what the hell do those guys do anyway?), but ultimately it's a system that reinforces the dominant opinions. Someone posts comment, is modded up, gets mod points, mods up similar opinions, etc.
Ideally people would be modded based on _how_ they say it, but too many times that just isn't the case.
Apple isn't going to lose any hardware sales off of this -- people buy Macs for the whole package experience, not to install operating systems, and don't really mind the lock-in, probably aren't even aware of it.
Apple is going to gain software sales off of this from people who otherwise wouldn't buy Macs because of the lock-in.
Thanks for the wall of text :)
I very, very rarely come across something that I can't get from the official debian repositories. The non-free repos take care of most of the codec issues.
You're right that these apps are compiled by someone else. The nice thing with repositories is that if something is found to be malware it will be automatically updated for me on my next apt-get update/upgrade. I don't need to go to the particular vendor's site and download an update.
Also there is some degree of accountability and ease of reporting-- if the Debian repos were found to be poisoned with some amount of malware I'd be aware of it from being on a single mailing list (and probably this would be fixed/removed with a daily update before I'd even know about it). On the other hand, if one of my shareware apps on my windows box turns out to be malware I may or may not hear about it. I probably only would if either it were huge news or I was signed up to a lot of windows security lists and actually read every single report, which frankly I don't have time for.
You're right -- an apt frontend that had that functionality would be really cool.
One of my main problems with just installing stuff from various sources is having 100 different pieces of software checking for updates in different ways, that's just ridiculous.
Personally I'm very wary of installing random non-open-source apps on my desktop. I feel a lot better about something that is in the main Debian repository and more or less gpl compatible.
Hell, check out that daemon tools page you linked:
"Dear DAEMON Community,
it come to our attention that someone released a fake DT PRO version that is
contaminated with trojans and viruses, among the fact it is only a DT Lite and
not a PRO version!
We cant underscore enough how important it is that you always download from our
official sites and affiliates!
Nowadays, and with the popularity of DAEMON Tools, it is not unusual to see such
attempts to harm others (and, after all, also our reputation).
Rest assured: we double-check all uploads to our official sites and frequently check
them further to make sure you get no harmfull viruses/trojans!"
Frankly just googling and then downloading stuff that looks like it could help is bound to lead to a malware infested computer. One of the very clear things that good Linux distros have over Windows is the use of a centralized software repository.
Thanks for the non-answer. I seriously was wondering why, in this person's case, a set of vms wouldn't work. I can imagine if you need to stress test things with real connections with limited bandwidth, but even that could be emulated.
Why wouldn't you just get a semi-decent machine and run a bunch of virtual machines on it? Seems a hell of a lot more practical and easy to administrate, not to mention economical in terms of power usage.
Oblig link: Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades
No shit, +5 funny? C'mon moderators -- not any completely unclever insult to MS/Gates/Balmer is funny.
[quote]
A BSCS is as difficult to get as degree in engineering, but as worthless as a degree in liberal arts.
[/quote]
I'm calling bullshit on this. Most good schools have a 3.0 requirement for engineering students to stay in the program, most CS programs are under the general 2.0 barrier.
Ugh. That reminds me. The other day at work I installed aol's aim client because a chat room had been set up to communicate while we went through some procedures (I usually just use gmail for chat). Suddenly Firefox's home page had been changed to aol.com, I had a hideous toolbar and some crappy chat bots added in my gmail chat list. Christ. Fuck this company.
"There are some exceptions, of course, like apache, and linux is obviously successful in the server market. However, the notion that any commercial products are having a hard time "competing with free" is bass ackwards."
You act as if the server market is a tiny exception. It's pretty large. Last time I checked many of the largest IT companies in the world run massive numbers of machines using FOSS. Of course many people don't use linux directly on their desktop, but you can bet they are using it indirectly via google/yahoo/etc.
The fact is FOSS is providing massive competition -- it is being backed by some of the largest companies in the world and is scaring the shit out of others.
+5? C'mon moderators.
This is yet another reason I refuse to purchase an Apple product.
I'm glad they are making some contributions to open source. That's lovely. I'm also glad they abandoned their mess of an operating system for something unix based -- I find it a lot easier to help out friends with their computers now, if they are Mac users. I even for some time recommended to friends / family that they get Macs.
However I will never allow myself to give this company any money. They do a pretty good job of masking their ridiculous greed and destruction with a slick PR campaign, but some of us are still not fooled. It's interesting that Apple was born out of the hobbyist computing community, yet is continously the one stomping on the little guy hardware/software hacker these days. Apple has absolutely no interest in openness, other than when it helps their bottom line -- if they only had the power and money of Microsoft they'd likely be even worse, considering Jobs' ridiculous Messiah complex and the number of idiots who buy into it.
The tag on this article says it all: Fuck Apple.
With this solution and the other you're degrading the quality of the recording. FUck that. If I purchase a song I should be able to play it whenever I want on whatever device I want without having to waste a cdr, jump through any hoops or degrade the recording.
And cite them too.
In before grammar/spelling nazis.