These results are ONLY because Linux does not have a SQA department. The software is released to an unsuspecting public with the unwritten assumption that THEY will do all the testing. Since most users would rather use than test, fewer bugs get reported than in commercial software where there are entire teams of professionals looking for bugs.
A commercial product I worked on last year required nine months of testing for an UPDATE release. On the other hand, your typical Linux release gets zero hours and zero minutes of non-developer testing before it gets released upon the public. And from what I can tell of the commercial distros, very little additional testing is done before being sent to the end user.
Frankly, it's amazing it isn't a complete pile of festering bits.
Nonsense again. You said: "XML allows you to use different XML schema's within one document". You imply that the data is being embedded in the XML, but this is simply not true. You are most definitely NOT using the SVG schema within OpenOffice documents. You no more embed SVG data in OpenOffice XML than you embed GIF data in an HTML IMG tag.
Nonsense! OpenOffice adds images as files to its zipped archive. They do not get embedded in the XML. Thus SVG, PNG, TIF, JPG, and all the other image formats are treated the same.
Do this experiment. Create an OpenOffice.org document. Embed an image in the document. Save the document. Rename the sxw file to zip. Open the zip file using your favorite method. Notice that the image is a separate file and not a part of the content.xml file.
Brian McConnell isn't the King of Silicon Valley. He doesn't get to decide what directions companies will take, or who gets to start a startup. As much as it may mangle his fragile ego, he isn't the ultimate well of business advice.
If he has a hardon for this, then HE can start his own damned startup. But he needs to stop acting like innovation's traffic cop. I'm already working in Silicon Valley building products that save hundreds of lives every day, and that's not good enough for him?. Screw him!
Every single browser has lost users each month since June 2004.
But only the browsers they track. I wonder how Safari and Konqueror are doing. Being a Unix-only browser, Konqueror isn't going to have stupendous stats, but I'm willing to bet it has more users than Netscape 3 which they do track. Come to think of it, why are they even tracking Netscape 3?
Except that would be a major bitch for anyone on a non-Linux platform, as well as the multitudes on Linux platforms with sound cards that ALSA doesn't support yet.
Just code to proper platform-independent audio API. Which is of course what KDE is going to do. That way the audio will work on whatever platform you use, even ALSA.
Meanwhile car makers are to blame for designing products to "beat the test" rather than to be safe overall.
It all depends on how you wish to interpret the situation. If you believe that auto manufacturers are scum (nasty evil corporate pigs that they are) then of course you will argue that they don't give a rat's ass about safety and only do the bare minimum to pass the tests.
But your interpretation isn't necessarily going to be correct. Here's another interpretation. If you live in a blue state, this interpretation will seem quite heretical, but hear me out before you ship me off to a retraining camp. What if auto manufacturers built to withstand head-on collisions for the EXACT SAME reasons the IIHS only tested head-on collisions? Maybe they're BOTH in the conspiracy together to kill off the US driver!
At the risk of being put on everyone's freaks list, I have to agree. There is still pollution, but it's nowhere near the level it was when I was a kid. I remember the days when you could tell you were getting close to Los Angeles because there was this big brown dome over the valley. There's still some haze, but it's a tremendous improvement. Today when you here about an air quality alert, nine times out of ten it will be because of pollen instead of smog. It's now safe for me to swim in fish in rivers there were hazardous in my youth. DDT isn't killing baby eagles any more. Etc, etc, etc.
No, we're not perfect. But forty years of "oh my god we are all going to die" panic attacks have gotten tiresome. Isn't it about time to declare the environmental emergency over? We still have a problem, but it's been reduced to managable levels. We can stop scaring our children to death, and stop teaching them that they can personally save the universe by not using toilet paper.
You need a marketing plan if you need to justify your own choices. Open Source is about diversity, but for many people conformity is the priority. In other words, an adolescent geek using Linux won't be happy until the other adolescent geeks around him use Linux as well. Replace "Linux" with any other choice, such as "AD&Dv3.5", "GTA:SA", or any particular brand of caffeinated soda.
We need marketing because adolescent geeks need validation. I'll now sit back and watch the insulted moderators run roughshod over this post...
Re:54 hippy architectures ... because no GPL?
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NetBSD isn't under GPL which I guess is a good reason why ports to things like OMAP and PXA27x are not in the public domain.
Do you know what "public domain" even is? Any software under the GPL is specifically *NOT* in the public domain.
Most applications needing 8-way or greater scalability probably aren't going to be choosing NetBSD. You don't need it on the desktop. For the vast majority of server applications you don't need it. NetBSD shines in the embedded market, but you don't get too many SMP embedded devices, let alone 4- or 8-way.
Frankly, if you need that kind of scalability you're probably already using Solaris SPARC.
There are so many differences between pkgsrc and RPM is isn't even funny. They're in completely different domains. I realize you have a very low userid, but that doesn't stop you from sounding like a "me too" drone when you bring up RPM. It's like those schmucks claiming a minimalist window manager as the equivalent of a complete desktop.
I use FreeBSD, which is listed as one of the platforms for RPM in your link. But there are native RPM packages for FreeBSD. It's only used for installing some *Linux* binaries. But with pkgsrc I get everything I need. I can even forego the native ports and rely exclusively on pkgsrc should I wish.
Poverty - Destitution has been virtually eliminated in North America and Europe. While there are still some homelessness, most of it is caused by chemical dependency and mental illness.
Famine - Primarily caused by the government! There has not once been a famine in the United States. Even in the midst of the Dust Bowl we didn't have a famine. See African Famine for more information. And yes, that site is biased. What did you expect me to do, give you a link from the Karl Marx home page?
Forced relocation - The Japanese internment was indeed an unfortunate (and tyrannical) event. But it was not the result of capitalism, but the result of ignorance. On the other hand, a lot of forced relocations around the world are done for "economic" reasons under communist regimes. At least that's the stated reason.
Gulags - Camp X-Ray, while extemely unfortunate, houses prisoners of war. I'll even grant you the point that many of them are best described as political prisoners instead of military combatants. However, there are no *economic* prisoners. No one is there for opening up a fruit stand, competing "unfairly", refusing to hire the party chairman's son, etc. Hell, you can't even find any tax cheats at Gitmo! So don't compare it to the Gulag.
Slavery, subjugation, murder. Yes, we made mistakes in the past. Today these acts are crimes. Not national policy, but crimes. Not the normal economic way that capitalists sell their goods in the free market, but crimes. Crimes.
No one is claiming that capitalism is perfect. But the half-assed micro-managed statist versions of it in North America and western Europe have never been as totalitarian as any communist state.
In all of the communist "experiments" in history, not one was a non-totalitarian state. If this were a chemistry lab I would tell you to keep performing your experiments because you just might find an instance of success after hundreds of failures. But we're talking about people here. You've had your chance with communism and your only results to date have been poverty, famine, forced relocations, gulags, and other forms of slavery, subjugation and murder.
Life and liberty are too precious to allow you to continue your inhumane social experiments. If communism cannot come about through voluntary and peaceful means, then it is not worth the price to humanity.
The Amerindians were most emphatically not communists. Not only do they predate Marx and the Communist Manifesto, their societies were nothing at like the socialiast utopia that Marx, Engels and Lenin envisioned. Communism wasn't some wild eyed utopian scheme to drive mankind back to a time of pre-industrial innocence, but rather a wild eyed utopian scheme where workers would own all means of production in common.
While several Amerindian cultures might have been broadly classified as "anarchist", that does not make them communist.
Firing people as a routine cost control mechanism is cruel, arbitrary, unfair and destructive.
NOT firing people as a cost control measure when finances are shaky is cruel to everyone else in the company, because it will ensure a 100% layoff when the entire company folds!
That scare story has been told for a couple of centuries. New technology has always been heralded by dire predictions of massive unemployment. But it's never happened as a result of technology. Never. SOME people get displaced, to be sure, such as the poor television repairman out of work and living under a bridge for the last thirty years because vacumn tubes were made obsolete. But claiming automation is going to cause double digit unemployment is ludicrous. In fact, new technology CREATES employment. Odds are, based on your Slashdot readership, the job you now have did not exist thirty years ago. I know mine didn't.
Precisely. Back in the mid to late nineties my company hired far more employees than it needed. Then the crunch came and we no longer had the cash flow to support redundant projects and the people developing them. We didn't have the cash to support one secretary for every ten employees. We didn't have the cash to support a dedicated web developer for each department's internal announcements site.
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These results are ONLY because Linux does not have a SQA department. The software is released to an unsuspecting public with the unwritten assumption that THEY will do all the testing. Since most users would rather use than test, fewer bugs get reported than in commercial software where there are entire teams of professionals looking for bugs.
A commercial product I worked on last year required nine months of testing for an UPDATE release. On the other hand, your typical Linux release gets zero hours and zero minutes of non-developer testing before it gets released upon the public. And from what I can tell of the commercial distros, very little additional testing is done before being sent to the end user.
Frankly, it's amazing it isn't a complete pile of festering bits.
Nonsense again. You said: "XML allows you to use different XML schema's within one document". You imply that the data is being embedded in the XML, but this is simply not true. You are most definitely NOT using the SVG schema within OpenOffice documents. You no more embed SVG data in OpenOffice XML than you embed GIF data in an HTML IMG tag.
I'll make sure not to use your small town law practice, because I like my legal documents corrected spelled.
which it actually does if you're adding images
Nonsense! OpenOffice adds images as files to its zipped archive. They do not get embedded in the XML. Thus SVG, PNG, TIF, JPG, and all the other image formats are treated the same.
Do this experiment. Create an OpenOffice.org document. Embed an image in the document. Save the document. Rename the sxw file to zip. Open the zip file using your favorite method. Notice that the image is a separate file and not a part of the content.xml file.
Brian McConnell isn't the King of Silicon Valley. He doesn't get to decide what directions companies will take, or who gets to start a startup. As much as it may mangle his fragile ego, he isn't the ultimate well of business advice.
If he has a hardon for this, then HE can start his own damned startup. But he needs to stop acting like innovation's traffic cop. I'm already working in Silicon Valley building products that save hundreds of lives every day, and that's not good enough for him?. Screw him!
The point is that he shouldn't have to. There's no reason for any application to demand a specific version of a kernel or libc.
We need to keep up with this momentum to make firefox the standard browser.
Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it...
Every single browser has lost users each month since June 2004.
But only the browsers they track. I wonder how Safari and Konqueror are doing. Being a Unix-only browser, Konqueror isn't going to have stupendous stats, but I'm willing to bet it has more users than Netscape 3 which they do track. Come to think of it, why are they even tracking Netscape 3?
KDE should go for a canonical ALSA solution
Except that would be a major bitch for anyone on a non-Linux platform, as well as the multitudes on Linux platforms with sound cards that ALSA doesn't support yet.
Just code to proper platform-independent audio API. Which is of course what KDE is going to do. That way the audio will work on whatever platform you use, even ALSA.
Gran Turismo 3 demonstrates quite well the types of skills necessary to take on the track.
Spoken like a true Slashdork. If you didn't learn it from a video game, it's not worth knowing...
SF is charming, and mostly harmless, but don't turn your back, or you'll get the suckerpunch.
Right on man. I turned my back on them once and I'll never do it again.
Meanwhile car makers are to blame for designing products to "beat the test" rather than to be safe overall.
It all depends on how you wish to interpret the situation. If you believe that auto manufacturers are scum (nasty evil corporate pigs that they are) then of course you will argue that they don't give a rat's ass about safety and only do the bare minimum to pass the tests.
But your interpretation isn't necessarily going to be correct. Here's another interpretation. If you live in a blue state, this interpretation will seem quite heretical, but hear me out before you ship me off to a retraining camp. What if auto manufacturers built to withstand head-on collisions for the EXACT SAME reasons the IIHS only tested head-on collisions? Maybe they're BOTH in the conspiracy together to kill off the US driver!
At the risk of being put on everyone's freaks list, I have to agree. There is still pollution, but it's nowhere near the level it was when I was a kid. I remember the days when you could tell you were getting close to Los Angeles because there was this big brown dome over the valley. There's still some haze, but it's a tremendous improvement. Today when you here about an air quality alert, nine times out of ten it will be because of pollen instead of smog. It's now safe for me to swim in fish in rivers there were hazardous in my youth. DDT isn't killing baby eagles any more. Etc, etc, etc.
No, we're not perfect. But forty years of "oh my god we are all going to die" panic attacks have gotten tiresome. Isn't it about time to declare the environmental emergency over? We still have a problem, but it's been reduced to managable levels. We can stop scaring our children to death, and stop teaching them that they can personally save the universe by not using toilet paper.
You need a marketing plan if you need to justify your own choices. Open Source is about diversity, but for many people conformity is the priority. In other words, an adolescent geek using Linux won't be happy until the other adolescent geeks around him use Linux as well. Replace "Linux" with any other choice, such as "AD&Dv3.5", "GTA:SA", or any particular brand of caffeinated soda.
We need marketing because adolescent geeks need validation. I'll now sit back and watch the insulted moderators run roughshod over this post...
NetBSD isn't under GPL which I guess is a good reason why ports to things like OMAP and PXA27x are not in the public domain.
Do you know what "public domain" even is? Any software under the GPL is specifically *NOT* in the public domain.
Most applications needing 8-way or greater scalability probably aren't going to be choosing NetBSD. You don't need it on the desktop. For the vast majority of server applications you don't need it. NetBSD shines in the embedded market, but you don't get too many SMP embedded devices, let alone 4- or 8-way.
Frankly, if you need that kind of scalability you're probably already using Solaris SPARC.
There are so many differences between pkgsrc and RPM is isn't even funny. They're in completely different domains. I realize you have a very low userid, but that doesn't stop you from sounding like a "me too" drone when you bring up RPM. It's like those schmucks claiming a minimalist window manager as the equivalent of a complete desktop.
I use FreeBSD, which is listed as one of the platforms for RPM in your link. But there are native RPM packages for FreeBSD. It's only used for installing some *Linux* binaries. But with pkgsrc I get everything I need. I can even forego the native ports and rely exclusively on pkgsrc should I wish.
Poverty - Destitution has been virtually eliminated in North America and Europe. While there are still some homelessness, most of it is caused by chemical dependency and mental illness.
Famine - Primarily caused by the government! There has not once been a famine in the United States. Even in the midst of the Dust Bowl we didn't have a famine. See African Famine for more information. And yes, that site is biased. What did you expect me to do, give you a link from the Karl Marx home page?
Forced relocation - The Japanese internment was indeed an unfortunate (and tyrannical) event. But it was not the result of capitalism, but the result of ignorance. On the other hand, a lot of forced relocations around the world are done for "economic" reasons under communist regimes. At least that's the stated reason.
Gulags - Camp X-Ray, while extemely unfortunate, houses prisoners of war. I'll even grant you the point that many of them are best described as political prisoners instead of military combatants. However, there are no *economic* prisoners. No one is there for opening up a fruit stand, competing "unfairly", refusing to hire the party chairman's son, etc. Hell, you can't even find any tax cheats at Gitmo! So don't compare it to the Gulag.
Slavery, subjugation, murder. Yes, we made mistakes in the past. Today these acts are crimes. Not national policy, but crimes. Not the normal economic way that capitalists sell their goods in the free market, but crimes. Crimes.
No one is claiming that capitalism is perfect. But the half-assed micro-managed statist versions of it in North America and western Europe have never been as totalitarian as any communist state.
In all of the communist "experiments" in history, not one was a non-totalitarian state. If this were a chemistry lab I would tell you to keep performing your experiments because you just might find an instance of success after hundreds of failures. But we're talking about people here. You've had your chance with communism and your only results to date have been poverty, famine, forced relocations, gulags, and other forms of slavery, subjugation and murder.
Life and liberty are too precious to allow you to continue your inhumane social experiments. If communism cannot come about through voluntary and peaceful means, then it is not worth the price to humanity.
The Amerindians were most emphatically not communists. Not only do they predate Marx and the Communist Manifesto, their societies were nothing at like the socialiast utopia that Marx, Engels and Lenin envisioned. Communism wasn't some wild eyed utopian scheme to drive mankind back to a time of pre-industrial innocence, but rather a wild eyed utopian scheme where workers would own all means of production in common.
While several Amerindian cultures might have been broadly classified as "anarchist", that does not make them communist.
Every state in history that has referred to themselves as "communist" was a totalitarian state. USSR, Cuba, China, etc.
Firing people as a routine cost control mechanism is cruel, arbitrary, unfair and destructive.
NOT firing people as a cost control measure when finances are shaky is cruel to everyone else in the company, because it will ensure a 100% layoff when the entire company folds!
Who says it's a "computer" company? Here's a hint: we have 430,000 employees total.
That scare story has been told for a couple of centuries. New technology has always been heralded by dire predictions of massive unemployment. But it's never happened as a result of technology. Never. SOME people get displaced, to be sure, such as the poor television repairman out of work and living under a bridge for the last thirty years because vacumn tubes were made obsolete. But claiming automation is going to cause double digit unemployment is ludicrous. In fact, new technology CREATES employment. Odds are, based on your Slashdot readership, the job you now have did not exist thirty years ago. I know mine didn't.
Precisely. Back in the mid to late nineties my company hired far more employees than it needed. Then the crunch came and we no longer had the cash flow to support redundant projects and the people developing them. We didn't have the cash to support one secretary for every ten employees. We didn't have the cash to support a dedicated web developer for each department's internal announcements site.
Life's a bitch and she's not fair either.