I don't see the point of the economic argument at all. With growing traffic and very slow speed in some urban area. We want to make the cars go faster. But on a grander scale. How can one improve the traffic efficiency in a country, as opposed to one person gaining 5 minutes by over speeding on an unencumbered highway.
If autonomous car, networked to each other and with the city grid. One can find automatically the most efficient path for all stakeholders.
Safe speed limit would be far different for cars that drives automatically.
Algorithms are great to learn but sadly Ive had little chance to use em in real work, would'nt put too much stock in them for returns.
In any case, any algos you need most likely you will learn on the job, if something slows too much.
Simple things like looping trough regular files, fusion files, sorting items, tree manipulations... are algorithms one couldn't do without !
How do you get from a real life situations to Classes, objects and a database schema is also worthy of interest.
Also nowadays, you're going nowhere in Java if you don't, at least, understand design patterns ! And those to me are also kinds of algorithms.
I don't get it. You wouldn't object them taking a picture of you. Even though your face is unique, the length between your facial features are unique and can
help identify you as precisely as fingerprints. But when it comes to fingerprints one starts freaking out....
They are legitimate reasons to be able to identify people. I think you are overeacting here.
The real issue of privacy lies with the databases containing that kind of data about you. Who can retrieve that informations, if it is retrieveable, and
cross-reference with other data about you. We need laws and standards, to make sure one can retains one's privacy as best as possible.
For apple fans, the locking down is a feature ! You'd never think of installing a Free and Open firmware on a Hammer ? would you ?
I agree with the free argument, but I also want computers to be a commodity as easy to use as any tool and objects we use everyday.
In that sense the iPad is a step further in that direction.
Now if it could be open, use open standards and keep the experience. I am all for it.
By the way, I guess it's gonna be hacke quite fast.
Well, I understand Coca-cola doesn't want to reveal its recipe.
That's the very reason their recipe is not copyrighted.
It's a trade secret.
Meaning if tommorow I discover their recipe, I can start Coca Cola2 and sell it like crazy, they can't sue me. If they had copyrighted it, they would be able to sue me. But by now, the recipe would be public.
Also, even if one doesn't know the recipe of Coke. It's been tested and approved by the FDA.
On the other hand, the closed software your running has been approved by nothing, if the reputation of its creator. I'd rather live in a world where people ask for the sources, an where as many as possible check it. Rather than living in a black box world, where somebody is ressponsible, but we might ass well die from the blow. (It's not my fault).
I had the same feeling after seeing him at FOSDEM.
He is kinda obnoxious, and yes, arrogant.
But on the other hand, the more I think about his ideas the more I like them (the ideas).
It's just that I find him a little too aggressive. But of course that's why I am not a top FSF activist.
The same way, I like and agree with most of Dawkins ideas. In some situations I found him a little too agressive.
Obviously Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is not for you.
I am currently using it on all of my server. It's not my choice. But it's working really well.
Indeed, If anny issues arise I always find the support I need on the internet. I understand one want's something else on one's desktop.
And actually I really enjoy tasting many "edge" distro on the desktop.
But for my servers I want something as stable and as supported as possible. Ubuntu is a good middleground for the IT people I work with, and Ubuntu, CentOS or RHEL would also be a good fit, regardless of their support of pulseaudio.
Has any of you read TFA.
Belgium demands private informations about BELGIAN USERS...,
"The United States and Belgium have a formal international treaty which the prosecutor should have followed to properly seek information from a US company."
Had they gone trough the proper, channels the might have well received it legally, since Belgium has special agreements with the U.S on
such matters, and it goes without saying that it goes both ways.
What I really don't understand is why they didn't do it the right way, and didn't understand how laughable it was to fine Yahoo when it didn't work out as expected.
Can't you see the notorious disruptive behaviour of the flemish people in this thread ?
As far as I know they are still belgians;-)
Well I don't want to offend anyone, but I was offendended reading some of these post.
I had noticed our ineffective politicians, made a big deal out of stupid little quarels, but I am astounded to see that
some belgians start to feel so much hate towards each others.
This sound too far right and extremist to me. Belgium never intended of being a part of France, neither of the Netherlands. Actually the most and best protected minority in Europe are is the German speaking community leaving in Belgium... not the Waloons.
Waloons and Flemish are fighting over Brussels, failing to understand that Brussels doesn't belong to either one of them. It is a federal state of Belgium with the same rights as the 2 other federals states : Walonia and Flanders.
Wow. Thats quite an archaic (and ineffective) choice of how you group the 'us' vs. 'them' in your world. Human beings are human beings. The concept that because someone lucked into being born in a different location than you makes them 'the enemy' is really sad, and a big part of what is wrong with this world.
Personally, I define 'us' as intelligent, hard working, decent (ie, moral and ethical) human beings. The random location of where they happen to be born and what government happens to claim them for taxation purposes has nothing to do with it.
I have nothing about individuals, but about the very exploitation of wealth difference between our countries and less wealthy countries in order to get cheaper labor. This is unethical to me.
Do you outsource for house building, or do you do it yourself? What about for that computer you're using? Did you make it yourself? Or was it outsourced to someone else who is better at it, and can do it cheaper than you could.
Just because some outsourcing happens to cross an arbitrary national line doesnt make it anything different than local outsourcing.
Right, I don't have anny issues with outsourcing locally. Since the closer I outsource, the closer 1 hour of my work is worth one hour work of somebody else I outsource my work.
But we are outsourcing very far on the very basis that 1 hour of my work in a rich country is economically worth 50 hours of some other people in poor countries. This is not right. It is radically different and unfair.
Indians tell you how you should work and in what conditions? Thats pretty weird.
When people won't hire me because the can hire indians, romanians or whatever else worker that will cost them less. They are actually disabling me of getting a job, unless I can offer the same service for the same price. To keep my job I'll have to accept less money, more hours or whatever to make up for that unfair competition.
I hope I don't sound racist, because I am not, it surely has to do with the poor choice of wording.
How is this reasonable? If you do this, then you're just short-changing your company, and putting everyone's paychecks at risk. Thats one of the things that people who havent run a business dont get. The pressure and obligation to keep the business solvent and growing so that everyone gets to keep their jobs and keep getting paid, is quite intense.
Actually "everyone" doesn't get to keep their job, but happen to lose it to "superior" foreigners. One job for a "superior" foreigner is one job less for us. Outsourcing of labor, isn't that far a concept to slavery. Except that nowadays we have to compete with the slaves of this economic system.
It shouldn't be indians that tells us how we should work and in which conditions, but rather them asking to work in the same conditions that we enjoy here.
KDE 4.2 in Manrdriva can work really well. It's a very enjoyable DE and it's a world appart from KDE 4.2 in Kubuntu.
Kubuntu 8.04 was something coming from hell, I felt like s.b. did a bad joke to me. Windows 98 was a monument of stability compared to it. ON MY HARDWARE, it failed completely.
But, since I used to love KDE, I decided to try it in a distro that implements it correctly "Mandriva" or "Suse". Since Mandriva was the most recent released distro I picked that one and I was amazed. I learned to love KDE 3.5 and got really used to it. And of course it's not yet the perfect.
But really I have no issue working with KDE 4.2, everything works for me. I think the community needs give a fresh look at KDE in distro where it works well.
In the last ten years in europe the cost of CD increased by more than 25% and they would make you believe that is because their costs increased in the same fashion.
I'd like to see who is paid 25% more than 10 years ago (same job, same age, experience).
Everything is more expensive nowadays, but I don't make more. Before the DVD existed I would seldom buy a movie on a videotape... nowadays I buy dvd a few times a year.
Ten years ago far fewer people bought video games. Nowadays it's more common.
If 10 years ago I had 100 euros for buying stuff, it would have been mostly for music. Nowadays I must split the same budget for music, movies, and videogames.
I make less money than 10 years ago, and these items cost more than 10 years ago.
Sony Music is probably making less money than 10 years ago, but overall, music/dvd/videogames they make certainly much more money than the ever made. They are screwing us.
They are not hysterical, it's 6 states out of 16...
And actually it's probably temporary, the article says they removed it "amid concerns over possible narcotics law violations."
It's obvious they will clear that up.
Also illegal drugs is more of a health issue than a geopolitical war in Europe. And you'd be wrong to think than any European country is more progressive on drugs than say California.
You might drink far more than 11 liters.
People who have psychogenic poydipsia often drink more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_polydipsia
They feel the urge to fill themselves with water. But after a certain treshold, the water will eventually deplete you sodium serum, and your nerves won't be able to work anymore,... then you die.
I disagree, this is not a good analogy.
You are confusing free soup and freedom.
As in freedom is the recipe for the soup, or the source code of the software.
I never got Linus Torvalds to install the Kernel for me or prepare any soup for me.
I happen to make the soup, and install the kernel according to the recipe. And the recipe clearly stipulates that any kind of death of suffering is my own responsability.
I don't know if I am clear. But if somebody understood, please back me up, since I feel it's a dangerous misunderstanding.
Hopefully video cards companies have filled patent, meaning their 'research' paid for by the american consumers will eventually transfer to the public domain... So everything is not lost.
But really I wonder, in this area of fast paced technology, should the patent rights last so long ?
How much time before this technology is released to the public ? Shouldn'it be much less ?
In areas where technology is going very fast, patent's rights should be very short. Allowing the market to be more open to new innovations and new companies.
I hate watching movies that were doubled in French !
Thus most of the time I go with the dutch version of the movie.
The only probleme being that when I want to watch the movies with friends that don't understand english.... they'd better understand flemish (dutch), finish, arabic or swedish cauz' the dvd doesn't come with french subtitles.
I am not going to decide who is my friend according to their english proficiency !
It's really a shame that in Belgium very few people can make key decissions that often tend to divide us more than unite us.
Our national motto being "In our unity lies our strength" (or Unity Makes Strength)
is defaced everyday by angry people and attention whores politicians. They now have the power in our country and our democratic system is now a complete joke.
A few years ago, it was difficult to find a french-speaking belgian that had a bad feelings towards the Flemish. Nowadays politicians succeeded so well, that everybody has got a point of view. Reality doesn't matter on either side of the linguistic border.
It's a country where its inner communities want to win over the other ones. There must be a winner and there must be a loser.
But in the end we are all losing in this.
It takes work and commitment to make a country and build unity. And it seems nobody wants to do that job.
Does python can really replace shell scripting ?
I'd really like to know. When I write scripts, I use intensively pipes and awk.
Would python allow me to do the same kind of things that awk do ?
In europe we pay in euro nearly the same price
you pay in dollars for your mac. If mac computers
are already overpriced in the US, it's even worse
in here !
Even though I have never seen so many people and (developpers) friends on mac. When they buy a mac it's mostly for their home. Because after work, they want something that just work... hum hum, not really for develloping.
In compagnies where I worked I often saw macs, but this was really much more for the creative kind of people and designers. The only realm where I see mac really growing is laptops. The quality of their laptops (macbookpro) seems to be
acknowledged and I start to see more macbook pro than thinkpads.
Really I don't know if the macbook pro is better than a good thinkpad. But It seems to please the developpers user a lot more than the alternative. (they ask for it).
Even though paging is never good, I have always heard that Windows handles it better than Mac.
But it was outdone by the fact that a mac historically could handle more ram than a PC and
you could add a lot of gygabytes of ram on a mac, and get so much better perfs anyway.
I am confident this was the conclusion of many
debates I read on slashdot and othe websites, but
really I don't know better. Could someone shed some light on this ?
"I mean, we should sue the gun makers because guns kill people." ?
It's an insightfull question to ask. When most of your production is finally found out in illegal warfares troughout the world. If you know it, aren't you also responsible ?
This would be using the law in the correct direction, using the law to defend the weakest.
Whereas in the case of P2P we see strong corporate entities that sue weak targets with
the laws they lobbied to be created.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't see the point of the economic argument at all. With growing traffic and very slow speed in some urban area. We want to make the cars go faster. But on a grander scale. How can one improve the traffic efficiency in a country, as opposed to one person gaining 5 minutes by over speeding on an unencumbered highway. If autonomous car, networked to each other and with the city grid. One can find automatically the most efficient path for all stakeholders. Safe speed limit would be far different for cars that drives automatically.
Algorithms are great to learn but sadly Ive had little chance to use em in real work, would'nt put too much stock in them for returns. In any case, any algos you need most likely you will learn on the job, if something slows too much.
Simple things like looping trough regular files, fusion files, sorting items, tree manipulations ... are algorithms one couldn't do without !
How do you get from a real life situations to Classes, objects and a database schema is also worthy of interest.
Also nowadays, you're going nowhere in Java if you don't, at least, understand design patterns ! And those to me are also kinds of algorithms.
I don't get it. You wouldn't object them taking a picture of you. Even though your face is unique, the length between your facial features are unique and can help identify you as precisely as fingerprints. But when it comes to fingerprints one starts freaking out ....
They are legitimate reasons to be able to identify people. I think you are overeacting here.
The real issue of privacy lies with the databases containing that kind of data about you. Who can retrieve that informations, if it is retrieveable, and
cross-reference with other data about you. We need laws and standards, to make sure one can retains one's privacy as best as possible.
For apple fans, the locking down is a feature ! You'd never think of installing a Free and Open firmware on a Hammer ? would you ? I agree with the free argument, but I also want computers to be a commodity as easy to use as any tool and objects we use everyday. In that sense the iPad is a step further in that direction. Now if it could be open, use open standards and keep the experience. I am all for it. By the way, I guess it's gonna be hacke quite fast.
Actually if you're using IE6 they will advise you to use a modern browser, IE (8) being the first one they propose. Thus yes, in a way.
Well, I understand Coca-cola doesn't want to reveal its recipe. That's the very reason their recipe is not copyrighted. It's a trade secret. Meaning if tommorow I discover their recipe, I can start Coca Cola2 and sell it like crazy, they can't sue me. If they had copyrighted it, they would be able to sue me. But by now, the recipe would be public. Also, even if one doesn't know the recipe of Coke. It's been tested and approved by the FDA. On the other hand, the closed software your running has been approved by nothing, if the reputation of its creator. I'd rather live in a world where people ask for the sources, an where as many as possible check it. Rather than living in a black box world, where somebody is ressponsible, but we might ass well die from the blow. (It's not my fault).
I had the same feeling after seeing him at FOSDEM. He is kinda obnoxious, and yes, arrogant. But on the other hand, the more I think about his ideas the more I like them (the ideas). It's just that I find him a little too aggressive. But of course that's why I am not a top FSF activist. The same way, I like and agree with most of Dawkins ideas. In some situations I found him a little too agressive.
Merci pour la correction ;-)
I take much pride in the fact you couldn't find more mistakes in my broken english.
Obviously Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is not for you. I am currently using it on all of my server. It's not my choice. But it's working really well. Indeed, If anny issues arise I always find the support I need on the internet. I understand one want's something else on one's desktop. And actually I really enjoy tasting many "edge" distro on the desktop. But for my servers I want something as stable and as supported as possible. Ubuntu is a good middleground for the IT people I work with, and Ubuntu, CentOS or RHEL would also be a good fit, regardless of their support of pulseaudio.
Has any of you read TFA. Belgium demands private informations about BELGIAN USERS ...,
"The United States and Belgium have a formal international treaty which the prosecutor should have followed to properly seek information from a US company."
Had they gone trough the proper, channels the might have well received it legally, since Belgium has special agreements with the U.S on
such matters, and it goes without saying that it goes both ways.
What I really don't understand is why they didn't do it the right way, and didn't understand how laughable it was to fine Yahoo when it didn't work out as expected.
Can't you see the notorious disruptive behaviour of the flemish people in this thread ? As far as I know they are still belgians ;-)
Well I don't want to offend anyone, but I was offendended reading some of these post.
I had noticed our ineffective politicians, made a big deal out of stupid little quarels, but I am astounded to see that
some belgians start to feel so much hate towards each others.
This sound too far right and extremist to me. Belgium never intended of being a part of France, neither of the Netherlands. Actually the most and best protected minority in Europe are is the German speaking community leaving in Belgium ... not the Waloons.
Waloons and Flemish are fighting over Brussels, failing to understand that Brussels doesn't belong to either one of them. It is a federal state of Belgium with the same rights as the 2 other federals states : Walonia and Flanders.
Wow. Thats quite an archaic (and ineffective) choice of how you group the 'us' vs. 'them' in your world. Human beings are human beings. The concept that because someone lucked into being born in a different location than you makes them 'the enemy' is really sad, and a big part of what is wrong with this world. Personally, I define 'us' as intelligent, hard working, decent (ie, moral and ethical) human beings. The random location of where they happen to be born and what government happens to claim them for taxation purposes has nothing to do with it.
I have nothing about individuals, but about the very exploitation of wealth difference between our countries and less wealthy countries in order to get cheaper labor. This is unethical to me.
Do you outsource for house building, or do you do it yourself? What about for that computer you're using? Did you make it yourself? Or was it outsourced to someone else who is better at it, and can do it cheaper than you could. Just because some outsourcing happens to cross an arbitrary national line doesnt make it anything different than local outsourcing.
Right, I don't have anny issues with outsourcing locally. Since the closer I outsource, the closer 1 hour of my work is worth one hour work of somebody else I outsource my work. But we are outsourcing very far on the very basis that 1 hour of my work in a rich country is economically worth 50 hours of some other people in poor countries. This is not right. It is radically different and unfair.
Indians tell you how you should work and in what conditions? Thats pretty weird.
When people won't hire me because the can hire indians, romanians or whatever else worker that will cost them less. They are actually disabling me of getting a job, unless I can offer the same service for the same price. To keep my job I'll have to accept less money, more hours or whatever to make up for that unfair competition. I hope I don't sound racist, because I am not, it surely has to do with the poor choice of wording.
How is this reasonable? If you do this, then you're just short-changing your company, and putting everyone's paychecks at risk. Thats one of the things that people who havent run a business dont get. The pressure and obligation to keep the business solvent and growing so that everyone gets to keep their jobs and keep getting paid, is quite intense.
Actually "everyone" doesn't get to keep their job, but happen to lose it to "superior" foreigners. One job for a "superior" foreigner is one job less for us. Outsourcing of labor, isn't that far a concept to slavery. Except that nowadays we have to compete with the slaves of this economic system. It shouldn't be indians that tells us how we should work and in which conditions, but rather them asking to work in the same conditions that we enjoy here.
KDE 4.2 in Manrdriva can work really well. It's a very enjoyable DE and it's a world appart from KDE 4.2 in Kubuntu. Kubuntu 8.04 was something coming from hell, I felt like s.b. did a bad joke to me. Windows 98 was a monument of stability compared to it. ON MY HARDWARE, it failed completely. But, since I used to love KDE, I decided to try it in a distro that implements it correctly "Mandriva" or "Suse". Since Mandriva was the most recent released distro I picked that one and I was amazed. I learned to love KDE 3.5 and got really used to it. And of course it's not yet the perfect. But really I have no issue working with KDE 4.2, everything works for me. I think the community needs give a fresh look at KDE in distro where it works well.
In the last ten years in europe the cost of CD increased by more than 25% and they would make you believe that is because their costs increased in the same fashion. I'd like to see who is paid 25% more than 10 years ago (same job, same age, experience). Everything is more expensive nowadays, but I don't make more. Before the DVD existed I would seldom buy a movie on a videotape ... nowadays I buy dvd a few times a year.
Ten years ago far fewer people bought video games. Nowadays it's more common.
If 10 years ago I had 100 euros for buying stuff, it would have been mostly for music. Nowadays I must split the same budget for music, movies, and videogames.
I make less money than 10 years ago, and these items cost more than 10 years ago.
Sony Music is probably making less money than 10 years ago, but overall, music/dvd/videogames they make certainly much more money than the ever made. They are screwing us.
They are not hysterical, it's 6 states out of 16 ...
And actually it's probably temporary, the article says they removed it "amid concerns over possible narcotics law violations."
It's obvious they will clear that up.
Also illegal drugs is more of a health issue than a geopolitical war in Europe. And you'd be wrong to think than any European country is more progressive on drugs than say California.
You might drink far more than 11 liters. People who have psychogenic poydipsia often drink more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_polydipsia They feel the urge to fill themselves with water. But after a certain treshold, the water will eventually deplete you sodium serum, and your nerves won't be able to work anymore, ... then you die.
Like your post
I disagree, this is not a good analogy. You are confusing free soup and freedom. As in freedom is the recipe for the soup, or the source code of the software. I never got Linus Torvalds to install the Kernel for me or prepare any soup for me. I happen to make the soup, and install the kernel according to the recipe. And the recipe clearly stipulates that any kind of death of suffering is my own responsability. I don't know if I am clear. But if somebody understood, please back me up, since I feel it's a dangerous misunderstanding.
Hopefully video cards companies have filled patent, meaning their 'research' paid for by the american consumers will eventually transfer to the public domain ... So everything is not lost.
But really I wonder, in this area of fast paced technology, should the patent rights last so long ?
How much time before this technology is released to the public ? Shouldn'it be much less ?
In areas where technology is going very fast, patent's rights should be very short. Allowing the market to be more open to new innovations and new companies.
I hate watching movies that were doubled in French ! Thus most of the time I go with the dutch version of the movie. The only probleme being that when I want to watch the movies with friends that don't understand english .... they'd better understand flemish (dutch), finish, arabic or swedish cauz' the dvd doesn't come with french subtitles.
I am not going to decide who is my friend according to their english proficiency !
It's really a shame that in Belgium very few people can make key decissions that often tend to divide us more than unite us.
Our national motto being "In our unity lies our strength" (or Unity Makes Strength)
is defaced everyday by angry people and attention whores politicians. They now have the power in our country and our democratic system is now a complete joke.
A few years ago, it was difficult to find a french-speaking belgian that had a bad feelings towards the Flemish. Nowadays politicians succeeded so well, that everybody has got a point of view. Reality doesn't matter on either side of the linguistic border.
It's a country where its inner communities want to win over the other ones. There must be a winner and there must be a loser.
But in the end we are all losing in this.
It takes work and commitment to make a country and build unity. And it seems nobody wants to do that job.
Does python can really replace shell scripting ? I'd really like to know. When I write scripts, I use intensively pipes and awk. Would python allow me to do the same kind of things that awk do ?
In europe we pay in euro nearly the same price you pay in dollars for your mac. If mac computers are already overpriced in the US, it's even worse in here ! Even though I have never seen so many people and (developpers) friends on mac. When they buy a mac it's mostly for their home. Because after work, they want something that just work ... hum hum, not really for develloping.
In compagnies where I worked I often saw macs, but this was really much more for the creative kind of people and designers. The only realm where I see mac really growing is laptops. The quality of their laptops (macbookpro) seems to be
acknowledged and I start to see more macbook pro than thinkpads.
Really I don't know if the macbook pro is better than a good thinkpad. But It seems to please the developpers user a lot more than the alternative. (they ask for it).
Even though paging is never good, I have always heard that Windows handles it better than Mac. But it was outdone by the fact that a mac historically could handle more ram than a PC and you could add a lot of gygabytes of ram on a mac, and get so much better perfs anyway. I am confident this was the conclusion of many debates I read on slashdot and othe websites, but really I don't know better. Could someone shed some light on this ?
"I mean, we should sue the gun makers because guns kill people." ? It's an insightfull question to ask. When most of your production is finally found out in illegal warfares troughout the world. If you know it, aren't you also responsible ? This would be using the law in the correct direction, using the law to defend the weakest. Whereas in the case of P2P we see strong corporate entities that sue weak targets with the laws they lobbied to be created.