There is a difference, and it is not exactly subtle.
Moreover, you seem to be complaining about "splitting hairs" in a context, namely patents and intellectual property rights, which *is* about splitting hairs.
If a program is already running on your computer then it means the firewall is no longer responsible for stopping that application in any way - the firewall only protects against outside threats.
Well, that assumes you are using an extremely simple minded, not good for its task, firewall, really.
It seems we are soon going to need access to a big cloud of mainframes in order to read Slashdot... I have no idea what it is doing, but its Javascript freezes Firefox way too often...
the research has already been done so all they needed to do was actually implement a version for their driver model
You are seriously underestimating the complexity of the task. In any case, essentially everything has been thought of before. Your bringing up lint is simply stupid: you are either saying that everything that's been done (by MS and others) in the area of static analysis is a knock off lint, which is simply an ignorant thing to say, or you are saying that the work done by Microsoft is *really* a knock-off from lint, which is false.
Yeah. Were it not for the fear of getting sued, Windows would include Office, MSSQL, IIS, the MS development tools, and so on. Because we al know they are not really interesed in seeling those...
Within the Linux community there is still some kind of mistaken belief that everyday people have any kind of interest in computers for their own sake, and then contempt for them when they don't. 95% of people look at a computer as a tool to get a job done, and want it to do so in the quickest, most painless manner. They don't want to deal with dependency issues, having to find drivers for their hardware, etc. Part of Microsoft's (and Apple's) success is due to their willingness to spend millions of dollars to keep the user insulated from having to know a whole lot about their machines, and the willingness to embrace the technically ignorant.
Did you read what I wrote? I wrote that this user of which you speak will simply install ubuntu. For him, there is just one distro. The user who "I would expect to deal with the problem that his distro is not using the latest versions of everything" is not that user, but the geek who is doing it because he wants to.
This problem of which you speak does not exist: the "new user who does not care for distros" needs not to care for them for he will, in most likelyhood, never even know that there are more distros apart from Ubunto and Fedora, tops. You know of many others because you cared to informed yourself. All the people I know that use Linux and who are not computer geeks cannot name any other distro but the one they have installed! This angst of choosing their distro is simply a figment of your imagination./p
But the whole point of RHEL is that is stays stable. If you picked RHEL and you did not want that, well, *you* screwed up; aparently, youÇe learnt from that mistake. But why would RHEL have to cater for your needs in particular?: it caters for the needs of those that do need what it provides---and aparently there are many, for Redhat is doing quite well.
I have yet to find one of these mythical new users which "don have a clue what dstro they need" that proponents of the One True Distro keep bringing up. *All* new users I know installed the first distro they came across, and that has *always* been either Fedora or Ubuntu. This horrible state of doubt you seem to be describing simply does not occur IME.
(More geekish new users do wander a bit more: but I have yet to find one who ends up considering any option apart from Debian, Slackware and Gentooo---but the geekish new user does not really matter in this context)
Presumably, I a user has actually picked a distro that chooses to use older version of things (and he must surely have picked that after taking the time to find them, for none of the major distros fit that description...) well, I would expect him to deal with the problem that his distro is not using the latest versions of everything...
Can you point to a non-political group? Even a lonely parent who decides to home-school his kids evidently has a political outlook and in fact he is implementing it.
When you consider the place of importance Marx and Engels give to public education as part of their revolution you will see exactly why conservatives don't like government schooling in general and Ayers in particular.
Because conservatives do not see education as important for exactly the same reasons...
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You do that. Yet 99.99% of the computer using humans do not. Should they all adapt to the way you do things? Because it is "better"?
There is a difference, and it is not exactly subtle.
Moreover, you seem to be complaining about "splitting hairs" in a context, namely patents and intellectual property rights, which *is* about splitting hairs.
If a program is already running on your computer then it means the firewall is no longer responsible for stopping that application in any way - the firewall only protects against outside threats.
Well, that assumes you are using an extremely simple minded, not good for its task, firewall, really.
The RSA algorithm is not patented. Implementations thereof are.
You know, the distinction is not that subtle...
Your analogies do not work, because of the way cost is structured. The costs of producing each unit, etc.
Are there ANY social networking sites that aren't garbage? Orkut got taken over by Brazil,
Well, plainly Orkut is not garbage for the brazilians.
It seems we are soon going to need access to a big cloud of mainframes in order to read Slashdot... I have no idea what it is doing, but its Javascript freezes Firefox way too often...
Why on earth is this marked Troll?!
the research has already been done so all they needed to do was actually implement a version for their driver model
You are seriously underestimating the complexity of the task. In any case, essentially everything has been thought of before. Your bringing up lint is simply stupid: you are either saying that everything that's been done (by MS and others) in the area of static analysis is a knock off lint, which is simply an ignorant thing to say, or you are saying that the work done by Microsoft is *really* a knock-off from lint, which is false.
Since you did not tell me *what* it is you want to do to the file, it is simply impossible to say...
If the files you are editing are *that* big, then a text editor is not the correct tool.
What is the purpose of writing "shi-"?
they could even call the thingie yum
Well, she did screw things up majorly, turning Britain into this first "underdeveloping country", as someone put it.
Yeah. Were it not for the fear of getting sued, Windows would include Office, MSSQL, IIS, the MS development tools, and so on. Because we al know they are not really interesed in seeling those...
In the name of $DEITY, please let it go with the dependency thing already!
No one sane has had to chase a dependency in years...
Your sense of entitlement simply makes me laugh.
Within the Linux community there is still some kind of mistaken belief that everyday people have any kind of interest in computers for their own sake, and then contempt for them when they don't. 95% of people look at a computer as a tool to get a job done, and want it to do so in the quickest, most painless manner. They don't want to deal with dependency issues, having to find drivers for their hardware, etc. Part of Microsoft's (and Apple's) success is due to their willingness to spend millions of dollars to keep the user insulated from having to know a whole lot about their machines, and the willingness to embrace the technically ignorant.
Did you read what I wrote? I wrote that this user of which you speak will simply install ubuntu. For him, there is just one distro. The user who "I would expect to deal with the problem that his distro is not using the latest versions of everything" is not that user, but the geek who is doing it because he wants to.
This problem of which you speak does not exist: the "new user who does not care for distros" needs not to care for them for he will, in most likelyhood, never even know that there are more distros apart from Ubunto and Fedora, tops. You know of many others because you cared to informed yourself. All the people I know that use Linux and who are not computer geeks cannot name any other distro but the one they have installed! This angst of choosing their distro is simply a figment of your imagination./p
But the whole point of RHEL is that is stays stable. If you picked RHEL and you did not want that, well, *you* screwed up; aparently, youÇe learnt from that mistake. But why would RHEL have to cater for your needs in particular?: it caters for the needs of those that do need what it provides---and aparently there are many, for Redhat is doing quite well.
(More geekish new users do wander a bit more: but I have yet to find one who ends up considering any option apart from Debian, Slackware and Gentooo---but the geekish new user does not really matter in this context)
Presumably, I a user has actually picked a distro that chooses to use older version of things (and he must surely have picked that after taking the time to find them, for none of the major distros fit that description...) well, I would expect him to deal with the problem that his distro is not using the latest versions of everything...
Is that real? Was it ever a recommendation, to microwave mail?
Can you point to a non-political group? Even a lonely parent who decides to home-school his kids evidently has a political outlook and in fact he is implementing it.
Oh, he has nothing to do with anything. I just loved your bashing style, and he surely does provide raw material for you to work up!
When you consider the place of importance Marx and Engels give to public education as part of their revolution you will see exactly why conservatives don't like government schooling in general and Ayers in particular.
Because conservatives do not see education as important for exactly the same reasons...