Instinct brought us here. Evolution. Natural selection. There are several stages in the evolution of a given species, and in different stages, the "stability" of the gen pool varies. The less stable that pool is, the bigger the mortality rate of that species.
Right now, our natality rate and is way too high for our mortality rate. That means, our species is stalled in evolution. Regardless of that fact, we are evolving faster than ever. The reason: Evolution has moved out of the Gen pool, and into a new medium. Less advanced species are like a watch: 99% electronics, 1% firmware. We are more like computers: 20% very generic electronics, 80% software. When a tiger is born, he knows most of what he's going to know throughout his life. In our case, it's the other way around. Our new genetic pool is information. We shape society instead of genes, and society shapes our new breed. We don't keep information in genes anymore, we keep it on books, on the Internet, on our languages.
So, Evolution is now on our hands, and that means the old approach to it just isn't fit. Natural selection in the usual manner (the strong reproduces and eats, the week dies) no longer applies.
3000 years ago, you would have been unfit to live (No offense, please don't take this the wrong way). And you would have probably died at birth, and that was good at the time (We needed stronger bodies, just the best breed on certain parameters). Now, other things are more important. There are surely millions of people fitter than you physically, but less fit than you mentally. Your parents weren't the bigger or the stronger, they were the fittest in another sense (they did what they had to do to keep you alive).
So, in a way, things are still the same: The strong lives, the weak dies. But the parameters to measure weak and strong have shifted, for good. Welcome to the future.
Oh, BTW: I speak 4 languages. None of them are brain dead. English is my Third language, Spanish being my First. Portuguese is my Second, and German is my fourth. As you see, none of them are brain dead. Also, I can read C and K, but not F. Learning stupid conventions is stupid.
Just like the US has to get out of imperial units nightmare, and embrace the logical Metric System, C/J/K/Whatever need to also enter the 21st century and embrace a language that Isn't totally brain dead. It's like pretending a scientific calculator that operates in Roman numerals.
Don't like the project? When was the last time you were in the developers forum? Things don't get changed overnight. They are discussed thoroughly and lots of RCs go by before you get a new version. If you weren't there to provide your opinion, don't complain.
They imposed ridiculous penalties on Germany after WW1 and allowed Germany to remilitarize, giving birth to Nazi Germany, which, after defeated, gave birth to Israel.
They defeated the British Army in the Revolutionary War and provided financial aid to the Continental Army, giving birth to the USA.
Basically the French are directly responsible for the two most hated nations in living memory, the USA and Israel.
I use Google all the time. -> Checked I keep two GMail tabs open when I'm online (one is private, another is a corporate account) -> Checked, Google for your domains + downloads POP3 I use Google search, and recently I switched to the Chromium browser. -> Checked, few days ago Google's services are fast, easy to use and usually reliable. -> Agreed
How do I deal with it? I embrace it. And I keep 2 browsers open. 2nd one goes out through a proxy. 4chan and other undesirable browsing habits go there. I previously did this with 2 instances of firefox with different configs. Now I use Chrome for Public + Firefox for Private.
I am seeing that most of slashdot is now on facebook, which is totally sad. I can't reply to everyone, so I had to pick someone, and that was you, congratulations!. Here it goes:
I ain't so sure about the Gnome/Microsoft situation. I am a Gnome user, and I love it (I made the switch from KDE 4 years ago), so, I am worried about it's future. I already checked out the new gnome-shell, from the technical point of view Gnome's future looks brilliant.
From another perspective, Ximian has been very respectful of the community, and I'm not particularly scared of Mono.
GNU/Linux is used on over 60% of the worlds server. 90% of the worlds supercomputers run GNU/Linux. Off course, many of those servers have qualified sysadmins, but many doesn't Actually, MOST doesn't. Most are default installs running the Sendmails, Apaches, Asterisks and Sambas of countless organizations. And they don't get broken into everyday. They run flawlessly for years. If you check the logs of any GNU/Linux machine with a public IP, you'll see thousands of attempts every day, ranging from SSH bruteforce attacks, to carefully crafted screens trying to exploit Apache. But they hold up. GNU/Linux HAS an architecture. You might like it or hate it, but it has one very clearly defined architecture, and it works. Windows has NO architecture. Think about the UAC exploits for Windows Over 9000 that have been there since the first beta and never got fixed. Theres no public specifications, no design, just a pile of files mysteriously binded together. That'll never be secure.
GNU/Linux isn't perfect, and no system is absolutely secure, but it's reasonably secure, and, specially, it's well designed and well documented. When you sit into a GNU/Linux machine, you know what to expect from it. You know what it's doing, and you can clearly configure it's behavior.
Anything designed with, for, near, while talking about, or in any other way related to any microsoft technology is worthless. Visual Studio is not an extensible IDE, it's a piece of shit used only by crappy programmers.
I've been sick of Firefox for a while. I used to love it. I moved from Mozilla Suite to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. The first time I installed one of Phoenix's early beta's, I felt in love with that browser. But since 2.0, it started to suck... slower and more unstable with each version. I've been looking for a new browser for a while. I am not an Opera guy, and there are not many more choices for GNU/Linux (I am a GNOME person, so Konqueror is not an option, Opera is not bad, and anything else is Gecko-based).
After writing my post, I downloaded Chrome for GNU/Linux, and I'm writing this post from Chrome.
I have to admit it, wine or not, I am starting to like it.
The main big issue, is how the company doesn't have an official policy towards local app development.
When it comes to Google's web apps, you can expect AJAX, DHTML, clean and simple look, etc. OTOH, they local apps all look developed by different companies. They are developing apps in.net (which doesn't make any sense considering where google is standing right now, specially towards microsoft). Their so called "ports" are pathetic. All they do is recompile their apps with the WINE libs. Picasa is an example. And they didn't even test it before releasing, or at least disable the functions that don't work in wine. For example, on Picasa for GNU/Linux, when you click on "make movie" it throws the error "function not available on Windows 2000". They didn't even bother to disable it. If I wanted to run Picasa on Wine, I would just do so. If you provide a port, provide an actual port.
What really doesn't make sense to me is... why write applications in non-portable languages/frameworks, and then port them? Why not just go GTK or QT and port it everywhere?
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>>I bet I'll end up seeing git:// all over the place on Slashdot soon.
Oh, no way. We all se bitkeeper here. Just because their logo is a triforce.
Thank you, I'm here all week.
Or they could subvert the drones, take them over, land them, and send them back in time to kill Washington's mother.
They'll be back.
Instinct brought us here. Evolution. Natural selection. There are several stages in the evolution of a given species, and in different stages, the "stability" of the gen pool varies. The less stable that pool is, the bigger the mortality rate of that species.
Right now, our natality rate and is way too high for our mortality rate. That means, our species is stalled in evolution. Regardless of that fact, we are evolving faster than ever. The reason: Evolution has moved out of the Gen pool, and into a new medium. Less advanced species are like a watch: 99% electronics, 1% firmware. We are more like computers: 20% very generic electronics, 80% software. When a tiger is born, he knows most of what he's going to know throughout his life. In our case, it's the other way around. Our new genetic pool is information. We shape society instead of genes, and society shapes our new breed. We don't keep information in genes anymore, we keep it on books, on the Internet, on our languages.
So, Evolution is now on our hands, and that means the old approach to it just isn't fit. Natural selection in the usual manner (the strong reproduces and eats, the week dies) no longer applies.
3000 years ago, you would have been unfit to live (No offense, please don't take this the wrong way). And you would have probably died at birth, and that was good at the time (We needed stronger bodies, just the best breed on certain parameters). Now, other things are more important. There are surely millions of people fitter than you physically, but less fit than you mentally. Your parents weren't the bigger or the stronger, they were the fittest in another sense (they did what they had to do to keep you alive).
So, in a way, things are still the same: The strong lives, the weak dies. But the parameters to measure weak and strong have shifted, for good. Welcome to the future.
Exactly.
Oh, BTW: I speak 4 languages. None of them are brain dead. English is my Third language, Spanish being my First. Portuguese is my Second, and German is my fourth. As you see, none of them are brain dead. Also, I can read C and K, but not F. Learning stupid conventions is stupid.
Just like the US has to get out of imperial units nightmare, and embrace the logical Metric System, C/J/K/Whatever need to also enter the 21st century and embrace a language that Isn't totally brain dead. It's like pretending a scientific calculator that operates in Roman numerals.
Don't like the project? When was the last time you were in the developers forum? Things don't get changed overnight. They are discussed thoroughly and lots of RCs go by before you get a new version. If you weren't there to provide your opinion, don't complain.
They imposed ridiculous penalties on Germany after WW1 and allowed Germany to remilitarize, giving birth to Nazi Germany, which, after defeated, gave birth to Israel.
They defeated the British Army in the Revolutionary War and provided financial aid to the Continental Army, giving birth to the USA.
Basically the French are directly responsible for the two most hated nations in living memory, the USA and Israel.
FTFY.
Oh, Great! You had to bring in the niggers too!
Better yet, how much does a high school student fetch on ebay?
I use Google all the time. -> Checked
I keep two GMail tabs open when I'm online (one is private, another is a corporate account) -> Checked, Google for your domains + downloads POP3
I use Google search, and recently I switched to the Chromium browser. -> Checked, few days ago
Google's services are fast, easy to use and usually reliable. -> Agreed
How do I deal with it? I embrace it. And I keep 2 browsers open. 2nd one goes out through a proxy. 4chan and other undesirable browsing habits go there. I previously did this with 2 instances of firefox with different configs. Now I use Chrome for Public + Firefox for Private.
Problem solved.
Well, he is publicly showing that he is a Jew. That's as embarrassing as it gets. ;)
Yes, I am burning Karma. So what?
Dude, disgusting! There are pictures of Jews in there!
That's even worse than Goatse!.
I am seeing that most of slashdot is now on facebook, which is totally sad. I can't reply to everyone, so I had to pick someone, and that was you, congratulations!. Here it goes:
You use Facebook? What a faggot.
There, I feel much better now.
I ain't so sure about the Gnome/Microsoft situation. I am a Gnome user, and I love it (I made the switch from KDE 4 years ago), so, I am worried about it's future. I already checked out the new gnome-shell, from the technical point of view Gnome's future looks brilliant.
From another perspective, Ximian has been very respectful of the community, and I'm not particularly scared of Mono.
I think you are blowing it out of proportion.
Unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful
That is not true for a very simple reason:
GNU/Linux is used on over 60% of the worlds server. 90% of the worlds supercomputers run GNU/Linux. Off course, many of those servers have qualified sysadmins, but many doesn't Actually, MOST doesn't. Most are default installs running the Sendmails, Apaches, Asterisks and Sambas of countless organizations. And they don't get broken into everyday. They run flawlessly for years. If you check the logs of any GNU/Linux machine with a public IP, you'll see thousands of attempts every day, ranging from SSH bruteforce attacks, to carefully crafted screens trying to exploit Apache. But they hold up. GNU/Linux HAS an architecture. You might like it or hate it, but it has one very clearly defined architecture, and it works. Windows has NO architecture. Think about the UAC exploits for Windows Over 9000 that have been there since the first beta and never got fixed. Theres no public specifications, no design, just a pile of files mysteriously binded together. That'll never be secure.
GNU/Linux isn't perfect, and no system is absolutely secure, but it's reasonably secure, and, specially, it's well designed and well documented. When you sit into a GNU/Linux machine, you know what to expect from it. You know what it's doing, and you can clearly configure it's behavior.
**TROLL DETECTED**
You have been spotted. Mission Failed.
M-x monkey-mode
M-x font-lock-mode
On another note, the scientists have confirmed that they can pronounce the words "internet" and "nuclear" correctly.
Anything designed with, for, near, while talking about, or in any other way related to any microsoft technology is worthless. Visual Studio is not an extensible IDE, it's a piece of shit used only by crappy programmers.
AFAIK, Chrome is written in Visual Studio, and requires the .net libs.
Yes, I am not in the USA either.
Ok, GP here. Funny story:
I've been sick of Firefox for a while. I used to love it. I moved from Mozilla Suite to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. The first time I installed one of Phoenix's early beta's, I felt in love with that browser. But since 2.0, it started to suck ... slower and more unstable with each version. I've been looking for a new browser for a while. I am not an Opera guy, and there are not many more choices for GNU/Linux (I am a GNOME person, so Konqueror is not an option, Opera is not bad, and anything else is Gecko-based).
After writing my post, I downloaded Chrome for GNU/Linux, and I'm writing this post from Chrome.
I have to admit it, wine or not, I am starting to like it.
The main big issue, is how the company doesn't have an official policy towards local app development.
When it comes to Google's web apps, you can expect AJAX, DHTML, clean and simple look, etc. OTOH, they local apps all look developed by different companies. They are developing apps in .net (which doesn't make any sense considering where google is standing right now, specially towards microsoft). Their so called "ports" are pathetic. All they do is recompile their apps with the WINE libs. Picasa is an example. And they didn't even test it before releasing, or at least disable the functions that don't work in wine. For example, on Picasa for GNU/Linux, when you click on "make movie" it throws the error "function not available on Windows 2000". They didn't even bother to disable it. If I wanted to run Picasa on Wine, I would just do so. If you provide a port, provide an actual port.
What really doesn't make sense to me is ... why write applications in non-portable languages/frameworks, and then port them? Why not just go GTK or QT and port it everywhere?
I fully see your point, but you are in Sweden.
In the real world, Unions are worse than the soul eating corporations. Actually, they are just soul eating corporations masqueraded as Unions.
(Don't read that 'in the real world' thing wrong, it's actually a compliment to your country)