The problem is that we don't have enough regulations. If one regulation isn't working, slap another on top of it. Keep piling them up until the problem goes away. Remember, the government is our friend, and only sociopaths would object to more government involvement in their lives.... but seriously folks...
The core problem is that the property rights around privacy are ill defined. Who owns the information? Regulations can be minimized while being more effective, if they addressed the property rights involved. While I don't think the information itself can be owned, the media upon which it resides can be. Your diary, your server, etc. For example, you don't own your address information, and cannot legitimately stop someone from disseminating that information ("Bob lives at 123 Main Street"), but that letter is your private property, and you should be able to sue the crap off anyone who opens it and reads the contents. Mail servers are typically the property of the ISP, but you are renting its use so your emails are as much your property as your clothes hanging in a closet of a rental apartment.
You don't see any USB3 devices for sale, because USB3 isn't standardized yet. Putting this in the kernel is what is otherwise known as "jumping the gun".
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Every Unix I have used included a full C compiler. Maybe not as a default install, but definitely included on one of the CDs.
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...and Hurd is still "coming soon".
p.s. The term "GNU/Linux" wouldn't be so repulsive if there actually were a GNU system that Torvalds bastardized by swapping out a kernel. But there is no such beast because Hurd remains unfinished. RMS publicly called the kernel the simplest part of an operating system, yet they still have not finished it.
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Informative? WTF? The moderators are once again smoking crack...
You could say the same thing about Free Software, as 90% of the population uses that term to refer to proprietary freeware (internet explorer, flash, etc).
WTF? It's not about the age, it's about who first started bitching and whining about the other guy's name. That person happened to be Richard M. Stallman.
Hucking fell, It was if KDE fired all of the experienced developers and hired teenagers.
You're right. If you look at the names of the active developers of 1.0 and 2.0, there's not much overlap with the active developers of 4.0. It really is a brand new crew. Not only that, but I suspect that the new crew is 15 years younger on average than the old crew.
Why stop? For someone associated with the FSF to finally speak the truth on this matter is delightfully refreshing. There is no substantive difference between Free Software and Open Source Software. Yeah, you might be able to find some inconsequential differences that do not apply to any actual software, but that only proves the point of it not being substantive.
Who started the bickering over the FS vs OSS terms? None other than Richard Stallman himself. It's his brands he wants promoted at the expense of other brands. There is no Linux, it is instead GNU/Linux. It's not Open Source it's Free Software. He has started both those controversies and continues to fan their flames.
So be careful with your heresies, or the FSF may excommunicate the FSFE.
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You can say that for several programming languages as well. There's got to be something else to it.
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There are a gazillion programming languages, with new ones added every day. C, C++, Java, C#, Objective C, Pascal, Modula 3, Ada, Ocaml, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Javascript, etc. There's even a choice of shell scripts: sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, etc.
But only one SQL. I'm sure there are some other database query languages, but they are so obscure that no one but the longbeards have ever heard of them. Why is that? Why are there no alternatives to SQL? Not just minor variants, but actual alternatives.
Many people bleat, but I do not. Heck, I don't even use Linux, I use FreeBSD (on the desktop, btw). But I still think it's fucked that Google is telling the Linux community what to do. If it were Microsoft saying EXACTLY the same thing, we would be shitting all over them.
Qt is a good choice. Qt includes stuff he's probably going to have to include anyway, like strings, collections, GUI, networking, XML, etc. Just dump the MFC or.NET that he's already using and switch to Qt.
Qt is already modules. For using SVG you need core, gui and xml modules. No need for network, sql, phonon, webkit, etc. But if that's not small enough, you can configure away a lot of classes (a standard procedure for embedded).
Qt runs on cellphones, so there's no excuses that it's too big for a Windows desktop.
The problem with painting everything white, is that very shortly we're going to have cheap and durable solar cells. The nanotech is on its way, and we will soon be paving our roads and shingling our roofs with solar power. And it will be black.
So the big question is whether we want to reflect all that energy away with white, or collect it for energy with black.
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The problem is that we don't have enough regulations. If one regulation isn't working, slap another on top of it. Keep piling them up until the problem goes away. Remember, the government is our friend, and only sociopaths would object to more government involvement in their lives. ... but seriously folks...
The core problem is that the property rights around privacy are ill defined. Who owns the information? Regulations can be minimized while being more effective, if they addressed the property rights involved. While I don't think the information itself can be owned, the media upon which it resides can be. Your diary, your server, etc. For example, you don't own your address information, and cannot legitimately stop someone from disseminating that information ("Bob lives at 123 Main Street"), but that letter is your private property, and you should be able to sue the crap off anyone who opens it and reads the contents. Mail servers are typically the property of the ISP, but you are renting its use so your emails are as much your property as your clothes hanging in a closet of a rental apartment.
Be careful at the next zebra crossing...
I'm not joking. It's been at least three weeks now without Slashdot rendering in Konqueror.
You don't see any USB3 devices for sale, because USB3 isn't standardized yet. Putting this in the kernel is what is otherwise known as "jumping the gun".
In other words, phonons do not exist objectively, but are mathematical constructs.
Slashdot does not render in Konqueror: The editors fucked up.
A compiler was included on every set of Solaris CDs I ever had.
Eunuchs® is a trademark of Ball Labs.
Every Unix I have used included a full C compiler. Maybe not as a default install, but definitely included on one of the CDs.
...and Hurd is still "coming soon".
p.s. The term "GNU/Linux" wouldn't be so repulsive if there actually were a GNU system that Torvalds bastardized by swapping out a kernel. But there is no such beast because Hurd remains unfinished. RMS publicly called the kernel the simplest part of an operating system, yet they still have not finished it.
Informative? WTF? The moderators are once again smoking crack...
You could say the same thing about Free Software, as 90% of the population uses that term to refer to proprietary freeware (internet explorer, flash, etc).
WTF? It's not about the age, it's about who first started bitching and whining about the other guy's name. That person happened to be Richard M. Stallman.
You're right. If you look at the names of the active developers of 1.0 and 2.0, there's not much overlap with the active developers of 4.0. It really is a brand new crew. Not only that, but I suspect that the new crew is 15 years younger on average than the old crew.
If it worked for KDE3, but not for KDE4, with exactly the same driver, then how can you blame the driver? Hmmm, you must be a Plasma developer...
Why stop? For someone associated with the FSF to finally speak the truth on this matter is delightfully refreshing. There is no substantive difference between Free Software and Open Source Software. Yeah, you might be able to find some inconsequential differences that do not apply to any actual software, but that only proves the point of it not being substantive.
Who started the bickering over the FS vs OSS terms? None other than Richard Stallman himself. It's his brands he wants promoted at the expense of other brands. There is no Linux, it is instead GNU/Linux. It's not Open Source it's Free Software. He has started both those controversies and continues to fan their flames.
So be careful with your heresies, or the FSF may excommunicate the FSFE.
You can say that for several programming languages as well. There's got to be something else to it.
There are a gazillion programming languages, with new ones added every day. C, C++, Java, C#, Objective C, Pascal, Modula 3, Ada, Ocaml, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Python, Ruby, Perl, Lua, Javascript, etc. There's even a choice of shell scripts: sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, etc.
But only one SQL. I'm sure there are some other database query languages, but they are so obscure that no one but the longbeards have ever heard of them. Why is that? Why are there no alternatives to SQL? Not just minor variants, but actual alternatives.
Many people bleat, but I do not. Heck, I don't even use Linux, I use FreeBSD (on the desktop, btw). But I still think it's fucked that Google is telling the Linux community what to do. If it were Microsoft saying EXACTLY the same thing, we would be shitting all over them.
You gave it away for free, now stop whining that no one's paying for it!
Big cluestick: we are not your employees, we do not do your bidding.
No, it means they have to use other IP addresses. It's stupid of Wikipedia to think this stops anything.
Qt is a good choice. Qt includes stuff he's probably going to have to include anyway, like strings, collections, GUI, networking, XML, etc. Just dump the MFC or .NET that he's already using and switch to Qt.
Qt is already modules. For using SVG you need core, gui and xml modules. No need for network, sql, phonon, webkit, etc. But if that's not small enough, you can configure away a lot of classes (a standard procedure for embedded).
Qt runs on cellphones, so there's no excuses that it's too big for a Windows desktop.
The problem with painting everything white, is that very shortly we're going to have cheap and durable solar cells. The nanotech is on its way, and we will soon be paving our roads and shingling our roofs with solar power. And it will be black.
So the big question is whether we want to reflect all that energy away with white, or collect it for energy with black.