Doesn't trackerless torrents cut down significantly on the traffic in the tracker/bootnode end of things? So it gets even cheaper to distribute big amounts of non-infringing data?
So what is the downside for someone like Canonical to start using trackerless torrents for ubuntu? As far as I can see they would save on tracker traffic.
Why do IE lag behind? Html5 is a PROPOSED standard. Wasn't the original problem that everyone took proposed standards and started to implement them before they were finished?
Come play some Fixed Limit in the poker room - in there you will absolutely adore the people that don't get basic statistics. Just remember to be nice to them when you take their money - and order lots of White russians in the process!:)
I think excellent is a pretty big word - there are still quite a bit of static methods that makes stuff like unit testing a pain. Even their newer stuff(Linq to Sql) has this problem.
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If Google doesn't make an adblock plugin, someone else will. If Chrome can't support such a plugin for some reason, it will be forked and adblock functionality will be added.
One thing to do with telemarketers when they call:
Just ask them to hang on for a sec - put the phone down and continue whatever you were doing, watching TV or whatever put the phone in another room if you don't want them to listen to what you're saying.
Anyway - just let them hang there until they get bored and hang up - my personal record is a minute and 40 secs(danish telemarketers have NO patience apparently).
This way you make calling you as expensive as possible for the telemarketers with very little effort from you. In very little time it seems like they blacklist you(at least I haven't had a lot of calls lately - not that it's THAT big of a problem in denmark)
"Apple raised hackles in computer-privacy and security circles when an independent engineer discovered code inside the iPhone that suggested iPhones routinely check an Apple Web site that could, in theory trigger the removal of the undesirable software from the devices.
Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program -- one that stole users' personal data, for example -- to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store. "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he says." - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842341491928977.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology
So - it IS for disabling apps - and we(you the iPhone owners) will just have to hope that they donøt disable something they shouldn't disable.
To sum it up: The blacklist IS for disabling apps!
Without having worked on either X or QT, I would guess that QT is ALOT more accessible to get into than X. Look at the amount of different UI toolkits is around. Sure, most of them is far from the quality of QT but it's a sign that doing work on the level of QT seems to appeal to quite a lot of people.
But software that is comparable to X is very scarce, which indicates that THAT kind of software just isn't "funny" to do.
If Nokia ever would try to play hardball, I think a community supported version of QT would do just fine - KDE developers would most likely just pick it up, and if noone really wanted to maintain QT, it would simply die and we'd all use GTK instead.
So - I really don't see the same problem as with X.org here.
It's is practically impossible to unit test javascript code today - this is a problem, at least for me, in a world where more and more logic moves to the browser.
With Java -> JavaScript translation I will be able to write my code in java, take advantage of the unit testing tools in java, and then "compile" and deploy my application as JavaScript.
(2) Creative stated they cripple their hardware (depending on what model it is) in their drivers based on the Operating System version and what the item was sold as. They state they have the legal right to do so.
Sure they have - but the consumer, at least in Denmark(and most european countries I would guess), sure as hell have the right to uncripple it.
(3) Creative stated that anyone re-enabling features (however it is done) is "stealing" from Creative.
So - what is the reason for not having 3G on the east and west coast of USA? I would guess the population density there is comparable to most of Europe.
And don't think we have 100% 3G coverage over here(Denmark) - far from it. I would guess by area we're around 40%(Complete guesstimate), but coverage by population is at least 80% - I see nothing that prevents USA from doing something similar.
EVERYONE uses a web browser as an OS component today. No, really! Sun has been doing HTML documentation for a long, long time; they used to bundle Netscape 2 for the purpose of reading it (and websurfing.) Microsoft, of course, has been doing it since they integrated Aieee! Apple, naturally, uses HTML fairly liberally.
Really?
I cant remember when I last used a webbrowser on my webserver... Or my counterstrike server for that matter!
Remember - the poor guy had to create everything in 6 days - offcourse he didn't do the universe equivalent of painting behind the radiators! No one looks there anyway!
However, that is exactly why it can be a bad idea to let a programmer rewrite a messy module. Very soon you can find the users of that module asking why a laundry list of things don't work anymore
No?:)
Doing rewrites off non-unit tested software ends in this - not because he wants to write "perfect" software, but because he doesnt have the faintest ideas that different "quirks" in the software is actually poorly implemented features that users need.
Give me a well unit tested piece of messy code, and I'll show you a rewrite that your costumers wont notice.(Although well unit tested code has in my experience a tendency to not be as messy in the first place)
Since C#/.net is very lame compared to the challenges of something like OpenMosix
Excuse me? So you're saying that the language dictates how "complex" the language is dictates how fun a project in the given language can be?
I certainly think it is likely that OpenMosix presents a lot of interesting technical challenges that any good developer would love to get his hands on, but a complex business system in c#(or java for that matter) present a DIFFERENT kind of interesting technical challenges!
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Doesn't trackerless torrents cut down significantly on the traffic in the tracker/bootnode end of things? So it gets even cheaper to distribute big amounts of non-infringing data?
So what is the downside for someone like Canonical to start using trackerless torrents for ubuntu? As far as I can see they would save on tracker traffic.
Why do IE lag behind? Html5 is a PROPOSED standard. Wasn't the original problem that everyone took proposed standards and started to implement them before they were finished?
...when they will think nothing of installing over a gig of .net framework to start playing with C#
Lets let Microsoft spread the FUD please - My installation of .Net takes up pretty much the same amount of space as Java does, around 160MB.
Come play some Fixed Limit in the poker room - in there you will absolutely adore the people that don't get basic statistics. Just remember to be nice to them when you take their money - and order lots of White russians in the process! :)
I think excellent is a pretty big word - there are still quite a bit of static methods that makes stuff like unit testing a pain. Even their newer stuff(Linq to Sql) has this problem.
If Google doesn't make an adblock plugin, someone else will. If Chrome can't support such a plugin for some reason, it will be forked and adblock functionality will be added.
One thing to do with telemarketers when they call:
Just ask them to hang on for a sec - put the phone down and continue whatever you were doing, watching TV or whatever put the phone in another room if you don't want them to listen to what you're saying.
Anyway - just let them hang there until they get bored and hang up - my personal record is a minute and 40 secs(danish telemarketers have NO patience apparently).
This way you make calling you as expensive as possible for the telemarketers with very little effort from you. In very little time it seems like they blacklist you(at least I haven't had a lot of calls lately - not that it's THAT big of a problem in denmark)
Really? My Klingon attitude is a result of being mocked when I was a child!
"Apple raised hackles in computer-privacy and security circles when an independent engineer discovered code inside the iPhone that suggested iPhones routinely check an Apple Web site that could, in theory trigger the removal of the undesirable software from the devices.
Mr. Jobs confirmed such a capability exists, but argued that Apple needs it in case it inadvertently allows a malicious program -- one that stole users' personal data, for example -- to be distributed to iPhones through the App Store. "Hopefully we never have to pull that lever, but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull," he says." - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121842341491928977.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology
So - it IS for disabling apps - and we(you the iPhone owners) will just have to hope that they donøt disable something they shouldn't disable.
To sum it up: The blacklist IS for disabling apps!
Without having worked on either X or QT, I would guess that QT is ALOT more accessible to get into than X. Look at the amount of different UI toolkits is around. Sure, most of them is far from the quality of QT but it's a sign that doing work on the level of QT seems to appeal to quite a lot of people.
But software that is comparable to X is very scarce, which indicates that THAT kind of software just isn't "funny" to do.
If Nokia ever would try to play hardball, I think a community supported version of QT would do just fine - KDE developers would most likely just pick it up, and if noone really wanted to maintain QT, it would simply die and we'd all use GTK instead.
So - I really don't see the same problem as with X.org here.
It's is practically impossible to unit test javascript code today - this is a problem, at least for me, in a world where more and more logic moves to the browser.
With Java -> JavaScript translation I will be able to write my code in java, take advantage of the unit testing tools in java, and then "compile" and deploy my application as JavaScript.
What was supposed to happen in the year 20380000? ;)
(2) Creative stated they cripple their hardware (depending on what model it is) in their drivers based on the Operating System version and what the item was sold as. They state they have the legal right to do so.
:)
Sure they have - but the consumer, at least in Denmark(and most european countries I would guess), sure as hell have the right to uncripple it.
(3) Creative stated that anyone re-enabling features (however it is done) is "stealing" from Creative.
They are wrong
So - what is the reason for not having 3G on the east and west coast of USA? I would guess the population density there is comparable to most of Europe.
And don't think we have 100% 3G coverage over here(Denmark) - far from it. I would guess by area we're around 40%(Complete guesstimate), but coverage by population is at least 80% - I see nothing that prevents USA from doing something similar.
EVERYONE uses a web browser as an OS component today. No, really! Sun has been doing HTML documentation for a long, long time; they used to bundle Netscape 2 for the purpose of reading it (and websurfing.) Microsoft, of course, has been doing it since they integrated Aieee! Apple, naturally, uses HTML fairly liberally.
Really?
I cant remember when I last used a webbrowser on my webserver... Or my counterstrike server for that matter!
XO Laptops (and their adult equivalent)
:)
Now - there's an idea for the porn industry!
Obviousely - you never had sex with Jessica Alba... :(
Figuring out how to end a centuries old blood feud is left as an exercise to the reader.
That is definately a hard one, what is definately a bad idea is to start a new centuries old blood feud.
Well - in most sane countries reverse engineering is specifically allowed - no matter what the EULA's say. :)
Legalize Wine?
When did it become illegal? At least to the best of my knowledge, it's legal in any civilized country!
I am sure that the people that host symbolic.com are puzzled by the sudden increase in hits today! :)
Remember - the poor guy had to create everything in 6 days - offcourse he didn't do the universe equivalent of painting behind the radiators! No one looks there anyway!
and no JVM even exists for that
:)
With 5 replies I wondered why noone had found one - and voila - first link on google:
http://www.jamiga.org/
However, that is exactly why it can be a bad idea to let a programmer rewrite a messy module. Very soon you can find the users of that module asking why a laundry list of things don't work anymore
:)
No?
Doing rewrites off non-unit tested software ends in this - not because he wants to write "perfect" software, but because he doesnt have the faintest ideas that different "quirks" in the software is actually poorly implemented features that users need.
Give me a well unit tested piece of messy code, and I'll show you a rewrite that your costumers wont notice.(Although well unit tested code has in my experience a tendency to not be as messy in the first place)
Since C#/.net is very lame compared to the challenges of something like OpenMosix
Excuse me? So you're saying that the language dictates how "complex" the language is dictates how fun a project in the given language can be?
I certainly think it is likely that OpenMosix presents a lot of interesting technical challenges that any good developer would love to get his hands on, but a complex business system in c#(or java for that matter) present a DIFFERENT kind of interesting technical challenges!