> German denial of history has nothing on the Japanese.
On the other hand, as a British person having lived in Germany for the last 12 years, I would say Germany has faced the dark parts of it's past a lot better than the UK has it's.
> All OSes are susceptible to virii, if you don't think so, you're a moron.
Susceptible yes, although some are more susceptible than others.
However to most people this is academic: what interests them is what the risk is of actually *catching* a virus: and I am sure you know the answer to this.
> It is either a complete rewrite, a simple recompile, or something in the middle depending on how different the architectures are.
Unfortunately porting can also reveal hide bugs in existing code. Recent experience of porting a C/ADA app from Solaris 6 to 8 (i.e. no arch. change) that was rock solid on Solaris 6 revealed: use of non-thread safe libraries, functions with undefined return values, multiple buffer overruns, etc.:-( All fixed and working now, but a lot more work than expected (re-compile and test).
To my mind the source of the problem is the car buyer. As long as they look at only the sticker price and do not include the running costs then maintenance lock down will tend continue. The manufactures are under intense pressure to get the sticker price down, so they sell the actual car at very low profit margins and make their real profits on extras, maintenance, warranties etc. To ensure you get the maintenance you try to lock it down, but without being too obvious by 'welding the bonnet shut'. (Same scenario with games consoles: sell the hardware at cost or close to, and then make your profits on the software sales.)
I had a quick read of the article: it specifically says that the standard does *not* use coordinates, but refers to map features, e.g. a particular road. I guess they mean you could encode, for example, "the M1 is close between Junction 5 and 7". AFAIK this can not be encoded in GPX.
Lots of good points, and here is an additional one: (at least in theory) a bought (i.e. pressed) CD should last much longer than a home made (i.e. burnt) one.
I *think* that the point is that it is already mostly complete: hence ""Britain's oldest *original* computer" (emphasis added). Other older computers exist in the UK, but they are replicas or re-builds.
Don't get me wrong: I love Firefox and use it everyday but, IMHO, I think the project lost it's way sometime ago. It started as a simpler/leaner/faster browser. Slowly functionality has been added, and now we are down to should the tabs be on the top or the bottom, and what colour the re-load button should be. This is what Extensions a Themes are for !!
(But of course Mozilla has a business to run, so perhaps sleek and smooth is what 'the people' want !)
(I know I could use another browser: Opera/other Gecko based, but I need cross-platform, and then there is the effort of transferring all my settings/add-ons after years of Firefox usage/customization !!)
I find it a little incongruous of the article to say that SpaceX could 'take over' the resupply of the ISS. The Russians have been doing, and, AFAIK, will continue doing, sterling work with they very reliable Soyuz based Progress missions.
To those Slashdotters trying to explain how the report is incorrect/not really a drop/invalid... please be advised that the "correct" response is along the lines of:
>> Yes, P2P traffic *is* dropping: it is not a problem anymore, piracy is just fading away, nothing to see, everyone please move along.
>> Asus tried it already and it failed. > Failed? > They sold a shitload of them.
Failed ? Depends on what the aim was: if it was to create the market and sell lots then perhaps they succeeded. But if it was to make lots of money then perhaps Asus failed.
> for anything besides highly recognisable.com/.net/.org addresses, the only thing that matters is whether you have a decent rank on common search engines.
Definitely not the case for me: if I am looking for a UK based supplier I will often search for the product and site:.uk. Same for a German supplier I use.de.
> organizations should have claim to an entire TLD?
I think you have confused those who want to *use* a.eco address with the organisation that would *administer* it. TFA is about the latter, and IIRC is the same as all other TLDs (1 organisation to administer it).
> Car companies (especially GM!) don't make money by selling cars so much as they do by financing car sales.
I think this is not just the car industry (incidentally I understand they also make a lot of money from spare parts and tied-in servicing). Many other products are sold near cost to tie in people, eg games consoles (to sell the games), vacuum cleaners (bags), printers (ink) etc.
Well I like many aspects of government: it regulates the rapacious effects of "free-market capitalism", provides democracy, oversight, welfare, justice systems, security, protects the vulnerable etc...
Yes it has faults and makes mistakes, but I can not see how society can manage without them ?
My hope is that by Google using it's muscle to kicking the Nettop manufactures to allow Linux to reach down deep for device initialization then boot and/or resume times will improve in a way that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot (was LinuxBIOS) have been unable to do: mostly due to manufactures non-cooperation.
And if these patches are GPLed they can either go into the main Linux kernel, or be patched into any other distro for that device.
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> Many people feel the nazi's were ignorant for killing that many people, but being ignorant enough to promote censorship is just as bad if not worse.
Have I understood you correctly: are you saying that banning the Swastika in German is the same as starting WW2 and creating the Holocaust ?
> German denial of history has nothing on the Japanese.
On the other hand, as a British person having lived in Germany for the last 12 years, I would say Germany has faced the dark parts of it's past a lot better than the UK has it's.
> All OSes are susceptible to virii, if you don't think so, you're a moron.
Susceptible yes, although some are more susceptible than others.
However to most people this is academic: what interests them is what the risk is of actually *catching* a virus: and I am sure you know the answer to this.
Good to see that, once again, Microsoft is leading out with its' cutting edge technology. Not.
> so SoC manufacturers can include an ARM and a LEG on the same chip.
And then install Emacs and claim that your product *includes* the kitchen sink :-)
> It is either a complete rewrite, a simple recompile, or something in the middle depending on how different the architectures are.
Unfortunately porting can also reveal hide bugs in existing code. Recent experience of porting a C/ADA app from Solaris 6 to 8 (i.e. no arch. change) that was rock solid on Solaris 6 revealed: use of non-thread safe libraries, functions with undefined return values, multiple buffer overruns, etc. :-( All fixed and working now, but a lot more work than expected (re-compile and test).
> is BBC the only supplier of TV programming in the British market ?
No: there is ITV (major competitor), Channel 4 and Channel 5: all mostly financed by advertising.
To my mind the source of the problem is the car buyer. As long as they look at only the sticker price and do not include the running costs then maintenance lock down will tend continue. The manufactures are under intense pressure to get the sticker price down, so they sell the actual car at very low profit margins and make their real profits on extras, maintenance, warranties etc. To ensure you get the maintenance you try to lock it down, but without being too obvious by 'welding the bonnet shut'.
(Same scenario with games consoles: sell the hardware at cost or close to, and then make your profits on the software sales.)
> I say we send the Marines to storm the MS campus.
I say nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
To all those who say, why not just use GPX etc:
I had a quick read of the article: it specifically says that the standard does *not* use coordinates, but refers to map features, e.g. a particular road. I guess they mean you could encode, for example, "the M1 is close between Junction 5 and 7". AFAIK this can not be encoded in GPX.
> ...First, you got a good looking CD,...
Lots of good points, and here is an additional one: (at least in theory) a bought (i.e. pressed) CD should last much longer than a home made (i.e. burnt) one.
My Website does not get enough hits to need an Unlimited plan, you insensitive clod !
I *think* that the point is that it is already mostly complete: hence ""Britain's oldest *original* computer" (emphasis added). Other older computers exist in the UK, but they are replicas or re-builds.
Don't get me wrong: I love Firefox and use it everyday but, IMHO, I think the project lost it's way sometime ago. It started as a simpler/leaner/faster browser. Slowly functionality has been added, and now we are down to should the tabs be on the top or the bottom, and what colour the re-load button should be. This is what Extensions a Themes are for !!
(But of course Mozilla has a business to run, so perhaps sleek and smooth is what 'the people' want !)
(I know I could use another browser: Opera/other Gecko based, but I need cross-platform, and then there is the effort of transferring all my settings/add-ons after years of Firefox usage/customization !!)
I find it a little incongruous of the article to say that SpaceX could 'take over' the resupply of the ISS. The Russians have been doing, and, AFAIK, will continue doing, sterling work with they very reliable Soyuz based Progress missions.
To those Slashdotters trying to explain how the report is incorrect/not really a drop/invalid... please be advised that the "correct" response is along the lines of:
>> Yes, P2P traffic *is* dropping: it is not a problem anymore, piracy is just fading away, nothing to see, everyone please move along.
>> Asus tried it already and it failed.
> Failed?
> They sold a shitload of them.
Failed ? Depends on what the aim was: if it was to create the market and sell lots then perhaps they succeeded.
But if it was to make lots of money then perhaps Asus failed.
Cool: now I can surf the tubes *twice* as fast as my old 32-bit browser :-)
> "(at least among non-country coded TLDs)"
Yep: I did not see that ! My bad.
> for anything besides highly recognisable .com/.net/.org addresses, the only thing that matters is whether you have a decent rank on common search engines.
Definitely not the case for me: if I am looking for a UK based supplier I will often search for the product and site:.uk. Same for a German supplier I use .de.
> organizations should have claim to an entire TLD?
I think you have confused those who want to *use* a .eco address with the organisation that would *administer* it. TFA is about the latter, and IIRC is the same as all other TLDs (1 organisation to administer it).
> Car companies (especially GM!) don't make money by selling cars so much as they do by financing car sales.
I think this is not just the car industry (incidentally I understand they also make a lot of money from spare parts and tied-in servicing). Many other products are sold near cost to tie in people, eg games consoles (to sell the games), vacuum cleaners (bags), printers (ink) etc.
> No one likes the government...
Well I like many aspects of government: it regulates the rapacious effects of "free-market capitalism", provides democracy, oversight, welfare, justice systems, security, protects the vulnerable etc...
Yes it has faults and makes mistakes, but I can not see how society can manage without them ?
> By the end of today, we should have hover-cars...
Sorry: your post fails to conform to the accept norm on Slashdot: you should be dreaming of *flying* cars :-)
My hope is that by Google using it's muscle to kicking the Nettop manufactures to allow Linux to reach down deep for device initialization then boot and/or resume times will improve in a way that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot (was LinuxBIOS) have been unable to do: mostly due to manufactures non-cooperation.
And if these patches are GPLed they can either go into the main Linux kernel, or be patched into any other distro for that device.