I think I know why MSSR is depicting Linux as a end of line OS: I hear MS has a beta of an operating system, has been in the works for a loong time (beta 1.0 came shortly after the first Mac). One of these days it will be good for release. Possibly.
hmmmmm but with this episode you risk an escalation between Iran and Israel/US, which may move. And then you have to come to the defense of Iran or lose even that country to westerners. And then you have problem with westerners.
Unless of course you have a plan like this: you have everything blowing up and stupid sheep dies while the powerful have their bunkers with their seeds and their patents, their anti radiation therapy, some years later they come out as gods for the cavemen that somehow survived. A pretty good strategy, but it's a global one, and if you're so powerful to pull something like this, then russia iran china israel and usa are simply different colors on a map.
>The hardware was different: the Linux configuration had more nodes than the Windows configuration.
I RTFA but that claim is not confirmed. Anyway if they wanted to test linux vs windows they would have run on the same n. of nodes disabling linux ones. Pretty strange they did not, maybe some NDA or some phb which needs a case for
win deployment?
I'd rather build houses and dig ditches. You likely sleep better at night, especially if you are fully aware of the implications of being under.NET - or Oracle, or Apple....
BTW I did help making a building; dug ditches too, uphill (not both ways, one way only).
I've been meddling with PCs long enough to avoid.NET, and oracle Java, out of pragmatism, not ideology.
First issue, being partner to people that use patents as an offensive and not defensive measure makes the moment when you will not be able to do nothing as an independent programmer come sooner. This is not ideology, this is a bucket getting filled.
Then, for Microsoft AND Oracle, dev tools are things needed to obtain market penetration elsewhere. And themselves are a market. So you will learn and relearn how to do the same things whenever marketing dept. thinks a new version can/should be incompatible.
Dev tools coming from vendors which specialize in those are already a deal better.
Best, of course, is community driven development of dev tools. The community have real world needs and they implement it. They don't like to rewrite things or sacrifice backwards compatibility in exchange for nothing. Best case scenario, witness how web2py development is "fire-and-forget" since the 1.0 version in 2007.
Note that I didn't use open source vs. closed source as a discriminator.
Of course communities likes to change stuff. See ruby on rails where you have 3 flavours of ruby running on 3 versions of the framework with hundreds of combinations of appserver/db. But I can code rails version 0.x style if i choose so, even now, and deploy on the server that rails team thinks is the worst one if i choose so.
And community member might leave the project. But this happens often to commercial endeavours, and you don't need 5% of users in the world to have a supported tool. You need like 8 devs.
Java is basically in the hands of apache now. If they keep developing for it java skillz are saved. If not one surely starts learning other languages because even java will eventually become a new one.
> Well, yes, they do. And they do so in Unix/Linux, too; your pictures will typically be called.jpg (or.png, or whatever; you catch my drift)
I'd rather say that file extensions are a mere convention on unix (thanks to the powerful "file" command), you can do without them. BUT you're still right since they are vital for virtually all http server setups so they are alive and well.
I think this is not meant to replace package managers. I would rather risk dependency hell in debian, a quite uncommon occurrence in stable versions and have the space efficiency and ease of update that a package manager guarantees.
This is a very interesting tool, it even helps to monitor if a program behaves maliciously.
I have books with every single bit of addressing space of the apple][ documented, commodore people had the same. It means we actually owned the damn thing.
And people possibly and Justice for sure want lawyers who may have cheated to be put in the place of the accused, because they don't respect the system that feeds'em.
Prevailing is not relevant, it happens AFTER the abuse. Asing the law and mobilizing judges, jury, etcetera for any other purpose than obtaining justice means the damage is already done. And What about bankrupting the opponent even before prevailing? And what about real crimes that will go unpunished because judges and corporations are suing 14 years old?
Exactly, together with the undeniable fact that suing and being sued costs big money, it spells out that the law is the instrument of control of those who can afford to wield it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
People opposed to the system are usually labeled subversive, but they are instead opposing, ignoring, or getting in the way. The real subversion is what's described in this discussion.
Actually no, there is no difference between the right to bear arms of a depressed guy under prescription drugs and an army vet. Either you are against both bearing arms or blah blah.
See, there are thousands of other istances where laws put restrictions to a category of people considered even remotely a potential danger. Sometimes those restrictions have sense because they want to prevent social problems. Sometimes it's just a way for politicians to pretend to care. But exceptions, well, are the rule.
When nobody will have a problem if a porn movie with their mom is advertised in the local theater, THEN there will be no difference and I will be the hypocrite. Till that moment, you're it.
This is acceptable if we weren't talking about porn. Unfortunately, we are.
IIRC and I don't know if it's still valid, italian legislation didn't permit pornographic material to enjoy the same level of protection of normal works.
Initially I thought it was a catholic thing, and it might well be. But think about the implications.
Now it has likely become a normal profession but for years a porn star was a model or a pretty girl "recruited" by very glamourous guys very similar to the pimps that first make innocent nude shots, then go to hardcore and prostitution. Drug and blackmail used to reduce resistence. Get documented if you don't believe it.
So by not enforcing copyright, and let people pirate movies, they were hurting this industry. Giving them less money gives them less power and less people can fall in their trap.
If porn artists were never forced, and independent, I would have no probs in them owning intellectual property over their own image. It's more moral than software patents. As thing are, instead, the more damage their industry sustains the happier I am.
Giving money to the RIAA that first let songs into airwaves and tv ads and then ruins the life of a teenager that copies those songs is obviously a danger to all of us and if we don't stop buying music, people will continued to be slaughtered in trials by a flawed system.
> Cleaning up the geopolitical mess that bush created without thinking things through.
I bet that people who financed Bush stood to gain from the war, directly or though oil crisis/control of resources. What is a mess for you might be a plan for somebody else. Yes, the plan might hurt the USA. For really powerful people that is not a problem, they have set up transnational organizations under our nose for decades. If you consider financial power as more effective than political one, the new world order that conspiracy nuts fear is already here.
> It's on the Developer shoulders to take responsibility for their choices.
IIRC apple reviews the apps it allows on its store. they damn share the responsibility, they are not mere carriers. Were they not realizing the licence under which they could distribute a program under GPL? but when people break license agreements with OSX clones or hackintoshes it`s a different matter, I guess.
I'd rather be perpetually free to encode too, and to do whatever i want with the result, even if it means 10% more band. You make your choice and hope that people who think like me save your a** by making it more dangerous to start monetizing market advantages.
oodles yes, well supported I guess depends on your standards. Seeing a driver that used to work stop recognizing the network printer after a reinstall, while the same printer works when using a more generic driver seems brittle. Happened to me last friday, not in 2004 BTW.
Compare that with glitches in debian, which usually survive reinstallation and often are multiplatform and multiarch. THAT is solidity:D
> To say that increased yield is propaganda, quite frankly, is simply untrue. I said propaganda phase. When media started discussing GM, media told they'd resist parasites and yield more. Your post itself says higher yield is not often the direct result of GM. That is the point, and anyway we'll soon see.
About genetic engineers, it's their bosses that count.
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FUD spreads Microsoft Russian (aka MSSR) exec.
I think I know why MSSR is depicting Linux as a end of line OS: I hear MS has a beta of an operating system, has been in the works for a loong time (beta 1.0 came shortly after the first Mac). One of these days it will be good for release. Possibly.
Or whenever YOU choose to install the patched kernel. Freedom at work.
Solution: whoever sees a sinking yacht goes there and loots it. If it is this one, sinks it too, then posts to slashdot idle the cease alert.
hmmmmm but with this episode you risk an escalation between Iran and Israel/US, which may move. And then you have to come to the defense of Iran or lose even that country to westerners. And then you have problem with westerners.
Unless of course you have a plan like this: you have everything blowing up and stupid sheep dies while the powerful have their bunkers with their seeds and their patents, their anti radiation therapy, some years later they come out as gods for the cavemen that somehow survived.
A pretty good strategy, but it's a global one, and if you're so powerful to pull something like this, then russia iran china israel and usa are simply different colors on a map.
yo dawg, i herd you like sarcasm so i appended a yo dawg comment to a yo dawg thread so you can be sarcastic while you're sarcastic.
>The hardware was different: the Linux configuration had more nodes than the Windows configuration.
I RTFA but that claim is not confirmed.
Anyway if they wanted to test linux vs windows they would have run on the same n. of nodes disabling linux ones. Pretty strange they did not, maybe some NDA or some phb which needs a case for
win deployment?
I'd rather build houses and dig ditches. You likely sleep better at night, especially if you are fully aware of the implications of being under .NET - or Oracle, or Apple ....
BTW I did help making a building; dug ditches too, uphill (not both ways, one way only).
I've been meddling with PCs long enough to avoid .NET, and oracle Java, out of pragmatism, not ideology.
First issue, being partner to people that use patents as an offensive and not defensive measure makes the moment when you will not be able to do nothing as an independent programmer come sooner. This is not ideology, this is a bucket getting filled.
Then, for Microsoft AND Oracle, dev tools are things needed to obtain market penetration elsewhere. And themselves are a market. So you will learn and relearn how to do the same things whenever marketing dept. thinks a new version can/should be incompatible.
Dev tools coming from vendors which specialize in those are already a deal better.
Best, of course, is community driven development of dev tools. The community have real world needs and they implement it. They don't like to rewrite things or sacrifice backwards compatibility in exchange for nothing. Best case scenario, witness how web2py development is "fire-and-forget" since the 1.0 version in 2007.
Note that I didn't use open source vs. closed source as a discriminator.
Of course communities likes to change stuff. See ruby on rails where you have 3 flavours of ruby running on 3 versions of the framework with hundreds of combinations of appserver/db. But I can code rails version 0.x style if i choose so, even now, and deploy on the server that rails team thinks is the worst one if i choose so.
And community member might leave the project. But this happens often to commercial endeavours, and you don't need 5% of users in the world to have a supported tool. You need like 8 devs.
Java is basically in the hands of apache now. If they keep developing for it java skillz are saved. If not one surely starts learning other languages because even java will eventually become a new one.
> Well, yes, they do. And they do so in Unix/Linux, too; your pictures will typically be called .jpg (or .png, or whatever; you catch my drift)
I'd rather say that file extensions are a mere convention on unix (thanks to the powerful "file" command), you can do without them. BUT you're still right since they are vital for virtually all http server setups so they are alive and well.
I think this is not meant to replace package managers. I would rather risk dependency hell in debian, a quite uncommon occurrence in stable versions and have the space efficiency and ease of update that a package manager guarantees.
This is a very interesting tool, it even helps to monitor if a program behaves maliciously.
Brits drive on the wrong side of the road. It figures.
It's news because it shipped jailbroken.
I have books with every single bit of addressing space of the apple][ documented, commodore people had the same. It means we actually owned the damn thing.
And people possibly and Justice for sure want lawyers who may have cheated to be put in the place of the accused, because they don't respect the system that feeds'em.
Prevailing is not relevant, it happens AFTER the abuse. Asing the law and mobilizing judges, jury, etcetera for any other purpose than obtaining justice means the damage is already done. And What about bankrupting the opponent even before prevailing? And what about real crimes that will go unpunished because judges and corporations are suing 14 years old?
Exactly, together with the undeniable fact that suing and being sued costs big money, it spells out that the law is the instrument of control of those who can afford to wield it.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
People opposed to the system are usually labeled subversive, but they are instead opposing, ignoring, or getting in the way. The real subversion is what's described in this discussion.
Yo dawg, I herd you like cookies, so I put a nevercookie in your browser so you can eat cookies while it eats cookies.
Actually no, there is no difference between the right to bear arms of a depressed guy under prescription drugs and an army vet. Either you are against both bearing arms or blah blah.
See, there are thousands of other istances where laws put restrictions to a category of people considered even remotely a potential danger.
Sometimes those restrictions have sense because they want to prevent social problems. Sometimes it's just a way for politicians to pretend to care. But exceptions, well, are the rule.
When nobody will have a problem if a porn movie with their mom is advertised in the local theater, THEN there will be no difference and I will be the hypocrite. Till that moment, you're it.
This is acceptable if we weren't talking about porn. Unfortunately, we are.
IIRC and I don't know if it's still valid, italian legislation didn't permit pornographic material to enjoy the same level of protection of normal works.
Initially I thought it was a catholic thing, and it might well be. But think about the implications.
Now it has likely become a normal profession but for years a porn star was a model or a pretty girl "recruited" by very glamourous guys very similar to the pimps that first make innocent nude shots, then go to hardcore and prostitution. Drug and blackmail used to reduce resistence. Get documented if you don't believe it.
So by not enforcing copyright, and let people pirate movies, they were hurting this industry. Giving them less money gives them less power and less people can fall in their trap.
If porn artists were never forced, and independent, I would have no probs in them owning intellectual property over their own image. It's more moral than software patents. As thing are, instead, the more damage their industry sustains the happier I am.
BTW. Do we need FOSS porn? Volunteers? :D
What about torque?
Giving money to the RIAA that first let songs into airwaves and tv ads and then ruins the life of a teenager that copies those songs is obviously a danger to all of us and if we don't stop buying music, people will continued to be slaughtered in trials by a flawed system.
People. Will. CONTINUED.
> Cleaning up the geopolitical mess that bush created without thinking things through.
I bet that people who financed Bush stood to gain from the war, directly or though oil crisis/control of resources. What is a mess for you might be a plan for somebody else. Yes, the plan might hurt the USA. For really powerful people that is not a problem, they have set up transnational organizations under our nose for decades. If you consider financial power as more effective than political one, the new world order that conspiracy nuts fear is already here.
> It's on the Developer shoulders to take responsibility for their choices.
IIRC apple reviews the apps it allows on its store. they damn share the responsibility, they are not mere carriers. Were they not realizing the licence under which they could distribute a program under GPL? but when people break license agreements with OSX clones or hackintoshes it`s a different matter, I guess.
hypocrites.
I'd rather be perpetually free to encode too, and to do whatever i want with the result, even if it means 10% more band. You make your choice and hope that people who think like me save your a** by making it more dangerous to start monetizing market advantages.
oodles yes, well supported I guess depends on your standards. Seeing a driver that used to work stop recognizing the network printer after a reinstall, while the same printer works when using a more generic driver seems brittle. Happened to me last friday, not in 2004 BTW.
Compare that with glitches in debian, which usually survive reinstallation and often are multiplatform and multiarch. THAT is solidity :D
> To say that increased yield is propaganda, quite frankly, is simply untrue.
I said propaganda phase. When media started discussing GM, media told they'd resist parasites and yield more.
Your post itself says higher yield is not often the direct result of GM. That is the point, and anyway we'll soon see.
About genetic engineers, it's their bosses that count.