I live in portugal, and in here the highways have two limits: low - 40km/h high - 120km/h
Also, in a 3 lane highway, there are also low speed limits: right lane: 40, middle:60, left: 90
So, no! If I want to drive at 40 it's ok if I do it in the right lane. Driving at 200...there's no lane for that. But it's not the speed the reason for my post... its the careless driving.
This was just a example of "bad things" that ppl do while driving. And trying to make a law to every one of them is far fetched. I just wanted them to say: If you're driving, you're driving. Forget the rest because it's forbidden. Then, you wouldn't need a new law when eveybody starts to use the "new gizmo" while driving
well, let me change my post a little and imagine that I was driving ad 40km/h and he was driving at 120km/h (both legal where I live).
Is your post still correct ?
it should be forbidden to do ANYTHING else but drive. And it also applies to other car passengers.
God damit!! It's not a fucking game, it's your life you're betting.
I had a terrible car accident last year because a moron driving at 200km/h crashed into my car after (without knowing) changing lanes in the highway because HE WAS TRYING TO FIND A PARTICULAR CD to play (looking at the back seat).
You should drive, not listen to music, check your appointments, answer a call, watch TV or even check the map. If you want to do any of this thinks: STOP THE CAR FIRST.
I agree with you that you can't simply measure quality but... If you just RTFA, you'll see that is not "6 times better" but "6 times less bugs found then the average on commercial products"
The only thing wrong in the article: They should replace the term "commercial" with "closed source", because Mysql is also a commercial product and what makes it different is the open source model.
well, if you look at last year european launchs... you could see that they blew up and were inssurance covered. It's a game... you pay me a billion, if it blows up, I pay you 2, if not.. say goodbye to your million:)
and let me tell you that I really loved their ideas on "safer e-mail". Anyone sees that they already applied this tecnic on microsoft, because the e-mail containing the detailed information for this topic never reached the author:
Safer E-mail Handling Technologies This content is not available in this preliminary release.
Naming a thing "Rat Poison" doesn't means that is for rats. If *most* of the ppl used it to kill other ppl, it's not rat poison. Naming a basooka: toothpick doesn't makes it a toothpick:)
Linus is going to ask the responsible for the/proc/interrupts code how on hell didn't he tested that at home: " Why didn't you test/proc/interrupts with 512 CPU in ?"
1- More Linux lawsuits on the cards from SCO 2- Sun Micro Signs China Desktop Linux Software Deal 3- SCO steps up copyright battle with threat to sue Linux user 4- General Public Licence threatens software market, claims SCO chief 5- Sun cracks China with Linux 6- SCO plans more Linux lawsuits 7- Novell-SuSE alliance will break SCO contract, SCO's McBride claims 8- Novell steals the Linux limelight with SuSE buy
Google news on Linux: 1- SCO To Expand Its Lawsuit Beyond Linux 2- Sun signs China desktop Linux software deal 3- Gateway to Sell Servers With Linux Software 4- Linux Networx and MSC.Software Partner to Deliver Validated... 5- Oracle focuses on 'Linux' development 6- An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration 7- The Linux Enterprise 8- Linux company hires industry veteran
is google biased toward linux, or newsbot against it ? (hard question, no?)
no, you're wrong....
this just says that they do write new code before launching new operating systems.
what really bothers me is seeing bugs that affect all OSs from win98 to 2003... that means that is the same 10 years old code running in there!!!
These "head related transfer functions" take account of differences in the time at which a sound arrives at each side of the head, as well as subtle distortions caused by the shape of each ear.
the subjects used to test this new gadget were very very ugly...
The examples given in this document make me LOL.
I can translate them, if you don't get it.
This is what they say:
" Well, we took the from the internet, and we just used it because is "free". Now, there area some guys around who say that we can't sell the without making available our source code. If we do that, we're going to ruin our company. We lost millions developping our software. We're having second thoughts about GPL.
This is what they did:
1 - Instead of paying millions for some commercial software they just downloaded some GPL code.
2 - They modified it (or not).
3 - Sold "things" with the software bundled, without respecting GPL policy.
4 - Complain that somebody is trying to enforce the GPL on them... uau.. they're really bad bad boys.
Article Bottom line: You can't take code that you don't own and do watever you want with it.
And if Cisco bought Linksys for $500 million based on their "stolen software", they just are plain stupid. This is the problem with big companies: they don't invent the wheel. They just try to buy who invented it. But sometimes they just buy a bunch of powerpoints or (in this case) a bunch of problems.
slashdot is like the movie rental shop where I went.
First I went there and rent a lot of "good" movies. After 3 or 4 weeks, I just stopped, because there was nothing new around. I went there 2 months later and the same moveis were around just with 2 or 3 additions.
Slashdot latelly has become:
1 - oh god, another MS vulnerabilty. 2 - SCO Stories 3 - RIAA did this, RIAA did that.
Isn't this supposed to be NEWs for the nerds ? not OLDs for the nerds...
because this wonderfull piece of information can be resumed to:
Someone accused someguy of doing something and latter they found out they were wrong. Is that topnotch story to you ?
ok... you can continue to read the "in Soviet Union RIAA owns you" (always modded funny) and "this seems like the SCO case" comments..
well, I didn't mention any OS because I didn't want to see the linux/win war.
And BTW, I was not thinking specifically on Linux.
What I think is that if you separate (or better NOT INTEGRATE) the desktop OS/Software (that makes everything for you including opening emails, etc) with the server OS you have a better chance of not getting compromised from those desktops.
I assumed that ppl who run critical services were not from that class of "Internet guys who just want to check their email and browse the web, and don't even know what a patch is".
So, my question is: Why in hell does anybody uses a system that has a track record of so many bugs, virus, crashes, etc ?
I see this more and more: A "breakthrough" is made by some stupid CEO in a companny and in a matter of weeks everything is run under windows. Why ? because it integrates better... "we now have single sign on... for virus too: they just get in one computer and can spread around easily"!!!!
send the researchers of this *great* piece of technology to the moon?
Problem solved (if there is no air, there is no sound to distract you), and no need to spend *a lot* of money on crap projects...
Let's face it... they have a big market. They only need to find ppl that: 1 - Want to travel with a phone the size of a elephant. (to avoid unnecessary replies: the big gray ones from Africa, not the small ones from India) 2 - Work inside a pool. 3 - Need to have a conversation while in the pool. 4 - Need a brain surgery because they can't concentrate on a stupid phone call.
In Portugal that technology already exists: it's called VIA VERDE. It's not GPS, but it tracks cars around the highways. You have propper lanes to go through the tolls, and you don't need to stop and pay: automatic payment occurs through a associated bank account.
It's in use for several years and ppl who: 1 - Disable the device by removing it or something like that and go through the via verde lane still pay, because a photo is taken and the plate is automatically scanned. 2 - PPl that don't buy the device and go through the Via Verde lane, pay fines around $120 (you pay about $20 to cross Portugal from top to botom).
Well my friend, I'm from Portugal, and I tell you that we already are spied and I can really live with it.
Before they invented something called VIA VERDE, you had to stop and pay for the highway service. Nowdays, you can get a VIA VERDE thingy, and you don't need to stop: your car is automagically detected, and the ammount is taken from your banc account automatically. And if you just take out the detection thingy, that's no problem; a photo is taken, and a program automatically scans your plate and proceeds with the same process. If you don't have a Via Verde (never bought one) mechanism in your car, and go through that lane, you pay $150 (compared with the 2or $3 you should have paid).
Now in the end of every month, I receive a letter in my home telling me where did I went in the previous month, what I payed... if you join that to my debit payments on restaurants, etc, it's easy to tell from my banc account where was I every day and what I was doing....
Affraid of spying ? Be real... you don't need to be affraid if you're not doing anything bad.
And I'm not telling that you're paranoid: after all, you live in a strange country.. US is not anymore the "land of the free".
Just my oppinion: In europe there is no worry about the "government that peeks everybody moovements".
You see, even if it is only 3or 4 euros/dollars for the "token", you have to pay for the download time/bytes.
So, for some that have 56K/ISDN or a broadband connection with traffic limit (my isp makes me pay 50euros month for 2G and 2euros plus for every 100M), it's always cheaper to buy the damn thing. Same applies to download/buy linux distributions.
1 - develop a application ( you know how to do it, no ? 2 - try to "sell it" to as manny organizations as you can (for free). 3 - Make a contract with those organizations (for maintenance, bugfix, feature add) 4 - make it available to the world as open source.
What the organizations get: 1 - A "free" software. Maybe not the best there is, but sometimes they need months to decide on what to use (because it costs a lot of monney), but they need something now. There comes your program. And believe it or not, most times, your program will be the "final one". 2 - Direct contact with the developper 3 - A rapid deployment. 4 - Low risk (if you don't charge much for your software
What you get: 1 - costumers !!! 2 - flat fee revenue (aka you know what you're going to get in the end of the month) 3 - going open source enlarges your app "possible customers" universe. 4 - You can still get lot more customers with onsite or remote support for instalation, bugfixing, feacture adds.
What the world gets: 1 - Open Source Software:) 2 - open source software development backup up with real money.
I adopted this in the last 3 years, and its working great:)
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I live in portugal, and in here the highways have two limits:
low - 40km/h
high - 120km/h
Also, in a 3 lane highway, there are also low speed limits:
right lane: 40, middle:60, left: 90
So, no! If I want to drive at 40 it's ok if I do it in the right lane. Driving at 200...there's no lane for that.
But it's not the speed the reason for my post... its the careless driving.
This was just a example of "bad things" that ppl do while driving. And trying to make a law to every one of them is far fetched. I just wanted them to say: If you're driving, you're driving. Forget the rest because it's forbidden. Then, you wouldn't need a new law when eveybody starts to use the "new gizmo" while driving
well, let me change my post a little and imagine that I was driving ad 40km/h and he was driving at 120km/h (both legal where I live). Is your post still correct ?
it should be forbidden to do ANYTHING else but drive. And it also applies to other car passengers.
God damit!! It's not a fucking game, it's your life you're betting.
I had a terrible car accident last year because a moron driving at 200km/h crashed into my car after (without knowing) changing lanes in the highway because HE WAS TRYING TO FIND A PARTICULAR CD to play (looking at the back seat).
You should drive, not listen to music, check your appointments, answer a call, watch TV or even check the map. If you want to do any of this thinks: STOP THE CAR FIRST.
I agree with you that you can't simply measure quality but...
If you just RTFA, you'll see that is not "6 times better" but "6 times less bugs found then the average on commercial products"
The only thing wrong in the article:
They should replace the term "commercial" with "closed source", because Mysql is also a commercial product and what makes it different is the open source model.
well, if you look at last year european launchs... you could see that they blew up and were inssurance covered. It's a game... you pay me a billion, if it blows up, I pay you 2, if not.. say goodbye to your million :)
and let me tell you that I really loved their ideas on "safer e-mail". Anyone sees that they already applied this tecnic on microsoft, because the e-mail containing the detailed information for this topic never reached the author:
:P
Safer E-mail Handling Technologies
This content is not available in this preliminary release.
Go figure
it always depends on what most people do with it.
:)
Naming a thing "Rat Poison" doesn't means that is for rats. If *most* of the ppl used it to kill other ppl, it's not rat poison.
Naming a basooka: toothpick doesn't makes it a toothpick
Warez sites claim that they only distribute games and apps to those that unluckly broke their original CDs in half.
North Korea is creating nuclar bombs just to lower unemployment - officials say.
add your own lie here!!!
Linus is going to ask the responsible for the /proc/interrupts code how on hell didn't he tested that at home: /proc/interrupts with 512 CPU in ?"
" Why didn't you test
DUH!!
newsbot news search for linux:
...
1- More Linux lawsuits on the cards from SCO
2- Sun Micro Signs China Desktop Linux Software Deal
3- SCO steps up copyright battle with threat to sue Linux user
4- General Public Licence threatens software market, claims SCO chief
5- Sun cracks China with Linux
6- SCO plans more Linux lawsuits
7- Novell-SuSE alliance will break SCO contract, SCO's McBride claims
8- Novell steals the Linux limelight with SuSE buy
Google news on Linux:
1- SCO To Expand Its Lawsuit Beyond Linux
2- Sun signs China desktop Linux software deal
3- Gateway to Sell Servers With Linux Software
4- Linux Networx and MSC.Software Partner to Deliver Validated
5- Oracle focuses on 'Linux' development
6- An editor to ease Windows to Linux migration
7- The Linux Enterprise
8- Linux company hires industry veteran
is google biased toward linux, or newsbot against it ? (hard question, no?)
no, you're wrong....
this just says that they do write new code before launching new operating systems. what really bothers me is seeing bugs that affect all OSs from win98 to 2003... that means that is the same 10 years old code running in there!!!
These "head related transfer functions" take account of differences in the time at which a sound arrives at each side of the head, as well as subtle distortions caused by the shape of each ear.
the subjects used to test this new gadget were very very ugly...
3500x3600=12.6 Million...
:P
They should refer them as 12 Mebi pictures then
The examples given in this document make me LOL. I can translate them, if you don't get it.
This is what they say:
" Well, we took the from the internet, and we just used it because is "free". Now, there area some guys around who say that we can't sell the without making available our source code.
If we do that, we're going to ruin our company. We lost millions developping our software. We're having second thoughts about GPL.
This is what they did:
1 - Instead of paying millions for some commercial software they just downloaded some GPL code. 2 - They modified it (or not). 3 - Sold "things" with the software bundled, without respecting GPL policy. 4 - Complain that somebody is trying to enforce the GPL on them... uau.. they're really bad bad boys.
Article Bottom line: You can't take code that you don't own and do watever you want with it.
And if Cisco bought Linksys for $500 million based on their "stolen software", they just are plain stupid. This is the problem with big companies: they don't invent the wheel. They just try to buy who invented it. But sometimes they just buy a bunch of powerpoints or (in this case) a bunch of problems.
slashdot is like the movie rental shop where I went.
First I went there and rent a lot of "good" movies. After 3 or 4 weeks, I just stopped, because there was nothing new around. I went there 2 months later and the same moveis were around just with 2 or 3 additions.
Slashdot latelly has become:
1 - oh god, another MS vulnerabilty.
2 - SCO Stories
3 - RIAA did this, RIAA did that.
Isn't this supposed to be NEWs for the nerds ? not OLDs for the nerds...
because this wonderfull piece of information can be resumed to:
Someone accused someguy of doing something and latter they found out they were wrong. Is that topnotch story to you ?
ok... you can continue to read the "in Soviet Union RIAA owns you" (always modded funny) and "this seems like the SCO case" comments..
well, I didn't mention any OS because I didn't want to see the linux/win war.
And BTW, I was not thinking specifically on Linux.
What I think is that if you separate (or better NOT INTEGRATE) the desktop OS/Software (that makes everything for you including opening emails, etc) with the server OS you have a better chance of not getting compromised from those desktops.
Not trying to bash Microsoft but....
I assumed that ppl who run critical services were not from that class of "Internet guys who just want to check their email and browse the web, and don't even know what a patch is".
So, my question is: Why in hell does anybody uses a system that has a track record of so many bugs, virus, crashes, etc ?
I see this more and more: A "breakthrough" is made by some stupid CEO in a companny and in a matter of weeks everything is run under windows. Why ? because it integrates better... "we now have single sign on... for virus too: they just get in one computer and can spread around easily"!!!!
Damn stupid morons...
FYI,
google calculator says its something like:
110 kilometers = 68.3508311 miles
does that finding has something to do with a arm and a very complex processor found crushed in a automated factory ?
send the researchers of this *great* piece of technology to the moon?
Problem solved (if there is no air, there is no sound to distract you), and no need to spend *a lot* of money on crap projects...
Let's face it... they have a big market. They only need to find ppl that:
1 - Want to travel with a phone the size of a elephant. (to avoid unnecessary replies: the big gray ones from Africa, not the small ones from India)
2 - Work inside a pool.
3 - Need to have a conversation while in the pool.
4 - Need a brain surgery because they can't concentrate on a stupid phone call.
A ***HUGE*** market I must admit.
In Portugal that technology already exists: it's called VIA VERDE. It's not GPS, but it tracks cars around the highways. You have propper lanes to go through the tolls, and you don't need to stop and pay: automatic payment occurs through a associated bank account.
It's in use for several years and ppl who:
1 - Disable the device by removing it or something like that and go through the via verde lane still pay, because a photo is taken and the plate is automatically scanned.
2 - PPl that don't buy the device and go through the Via Verde lane, pay fines around $120 (you pay about $20 to cross Portugal from top to botom).
Well my friend, I'm from Portugal, and I tell you that we already are spied and I can really live with it.
Before they invented something called VIA VERDE, you had to stop and pay for the highway service.
Nowdays, you can get a VIA VERDE thingy, and you don't need to stop: your car is automagically detected, and the ammount is taken from your banc account automatically. And if you just take out the detection thingy, that's no problem; a photo is taken, and a program automatically scans your plate and proceeds with the same process. If you don't have a Via Verde (never bought one) mechanism in your car, and go through that lane, you pay $150 (compared with the 2or $3 you should have paid).
Now in the end of every month, I receive a letter in my home telling me where did I went in the previous month, what I payed... if you join that to my debit payments on restaurants, etc, it's easy to tell from my banc account where was I every day and what I was doing....
Affraid of spying ? Be real... you don't need to be affraid if you're not doing anything bad.
And I'm not telling that you're paranoid: after all, you live in a strange country.. US is not anymore the "land of the free".
Just my oppinion:
In europe there is no worry about the "government that peeks everybody moovements".
You see, even if it is only 3or 4 euros/dollars for the "token", you have to pay for the download time/bytes.
:P
So, for some that have 56K/ISDN or a broadband connection with traffic limit (my isp makes me pay 50euros month for 2G and 2euros plus for every 100M), it's always cheaper to buy the damn thing.
Same applies to download/buy linux distributions.
But hey... you can always download it at work
1 - develop a application ( you know how to do it, no ?
:)
:)
2 - try to "sell it" to as manny organizations as you can (for free).
3 - Make a contract with those organizations (for maintenance, bugfix, feature add)
4 - make it available to the world as open source.
What the organizations get:
1 - A "free" software. Maybe not the best there is, but sometimes they need months to decide on what to use (because it costs a lot of monney), but they need something now. There comes your program. And believe it or not, most times, your program will be the "final one".
2 - Direct contact with the developper
3 - A rapid deployment.
4 - Low risk (if you don't charge much for your software
What you get:
1 - costumers !!!
2 - flat fee revenue (aka you know what you're going to get in the end of the month)
3 - going open source enlarges your app "possible customers" universe.
4 - You can still get lot more customers with onsite or remote support for instalation, bugfixing, feacture adds.
What the world gets:
1 - Open Source Software
2 - open source software development backup up with real money.
I adopted this in the last 3 years, and its working great