The problem is not the different package managers, but that you almost invariably run into dependency hell when trying to install binary packages. This is due to the fact that most distributions install software in a way that makes it difficult to concurrently use different versions of software.
If the distribution installed software in a directory structure that included the package and version name, dependent packages could be configured to use different versions of the same packages.
If a new end user tool required a new version of a library, the existing tools that used the old version should not have to change.
Like so: /package/name/version/{bin,lib,...}
There would always be points of contentions, of course, like user config-file format changes between versions, but situation would be substantially improved.
I believe I saw a reference to a distribution that worked similar to this.
So is the clock-wise swastika. In (Hindu) India, the clock-wise swastika seems to be more common.
It is extremely confusing for a westerner to see ambulances and pharmacies with the "red swastika" or signs like "Swastika spices, Jewtown" (Jewtown is a township in Kochi, Kerala).
Why? Because ASN.1 is the Mos Eisley of bit-twiddly protocols
First of all ASN.1 is just that an "abstract syntax notation" it says nothing, or very little, about encoding. It comes with a bunch of encoding rules (BER, DER, XER, PER, whatnot,...), and only with those it becomes "bit-twiddly protocols".
Now, the point of DER is that there should be a unique representation of data, so that there is no doubt what bits signatures are made over. Accomplishing the same thing for XML-signatures was no simple feat! DER is the shortest form of BER, the other commonly used encoding rule.
Then there is XER, an XML encoding rule, which turns ASN.1 data structures into documents that look remarkably much like other XML documents, only the structure being defined by a text document in ASN.1 rather than a DTD or XML schema.
ASN.1 is one of these broad-scope protocols that tries to be everything to everybody
Unlike what other syntax notation? Not unlike SGML, XML DTDs or XML schemas, surely?
t also does some other things that are useful in a top-down hierarchical world controlled by all-knowing standards committees
Oh, yeah, it defines a data type for a hierarchical name in a name space owned by a standards committe! That's so unique! (If you don't like it, invent your own, ASN.1 has space for it!)
And then your first claim: but it's so ugly that everybody tends to reuse the reference implementation rather than rewriting their own
Far from everybody. Just like XML parsers not everyone feels it worth the pain to write their own {D,B}ER-{en,de}coders, but there are quite a few independent implementations. Granted, not all of them are open source. My ex-employer had two in-house implementations (one C, one java), so its not like it is impossible.
What is the difference between this scheme and signing the picture on the computer? That is, how would it prove anything beyond that you claim this to be a good representation of what you saw when you took the picture?
This is why the Euro notes depict arches etc that do not have any real counterpart: ECB didn't want to fuck with people who were photoshopping their holiday pictures. Since the features depicted on the euro notes don't appear in real life, no photos will be blocked by PS (except for those "pile of money" photos appearing in the business section of your news paper. They will henceforth only be piles of monopoly money -- close enough to fool the eye, but not blocked by PS).
And remember: one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
Actually no. The Geneva conventions are pretty strict on what you are allowed to do as a combattant (you must stand under command, wear a uniform or other sign, show your weapons before and under attack, and you must of course only attack target other combattants or military installations).
If you are not a combattant you are a civilian and bound by whatever laws were in effect in the country before the war. In most countries that makes killing people murder or manslaughter.
So, suicide bombings are always illegal, and a war crime, even if they target soldiers.
The Western Sahara is a different issue. Spain was ocuppying it during the days of european colonization and it was taken back about 3 decades ago at the end of a "million men" peaceful march. Since then, Spain has been trying to make it an independant country so that they could fish within it's territorial waters for cheap. Now THAT is a very touchy subject for your average moroccan. You know..pride, territorial integrity, yadda yadda. The government has been stalling a referendum supposed to take place there and giving incentives to Moroccans to relocate there in hopes of skewing a future vote.
To put it differently, the Saharawi, the indigeneous people in West Sahara, has tried to make themselves independent since the 50's. In 1975 the Spanish colonial administration was replaced with a Moroccan and Mauretanian colonial administration. The UN and the ICJ has repeatedly rejected the Moroccan and Mauretanian claims to West Sahara.
http://www.wsahara.net/ seems to represent the view of the subjungated.
(The world doesn't seem to be all that upset. I guess colonies are all right then, as long as the colonial masters aren't westerners.)
It doesn't really cost all that much less, today, to built a 300mhz CPU than a 3000mhz one.
Uhm, yeah, but a 300 MHz CPU draws a whole lot less power than a 3 GHz one, so it doesn't need as fancy cooling, it can be made smaller. Also, it's not just the CPU:s that have grown, so have the video adapters etc. A lot of the functionality of a 1997 computer can be probably be integrated into a few chips, making for substantial cost reductions.
Flextronics, the contract manufacturer possibly best known for its production of many Cisco products
Flextronics would be best known for the production of any electronics that traditionally was made by a company near you. Or Flextronics would be best known for doing the dirty work of moving jobs to Asia so that it doesn't reflect badly on major western brands.
Mac OS X specifically. I export a few DAV "shares" over https from my wardrobe server and they mount fine in Windows (web folders). Mac OS X 10.2 unfortunately wouldn't (DAV over http is fine, of course).
It seems like such a brain haemorrage to leave that out.
I have a licentiate, which is a Swedish degree between the Master and the Doctorate degrees. It is both used as a way to keep track of PhD students and as a bail-out mechanism when you need one. When I first called on the job ad for the job I eventually got, the recruiting boss' immediate reaction was that I was not suited. I was persistent so I did indeed get to the interview, and from there on there were no problems. So as long as you get to the interview your degree is probably not a problem (unless you really got brain damaged at the university, those things happens, you know).
Caveats: I am Swedish, and I have my degree in Physics, so I guess I didn't really answer the question, but it was fun to talk.
Europeans wanted a super-state, they've got it. Oh wait... Cancel that. Nobody told the poor schmucks that they would eventually end up in a remake of the Ottoman Empire.
Naw, we are not finished yet. It is time to make it a parliamentary democracy. That is, pass all the legislative power of the union to the European parliament.
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It might get funny ideas into your brain, for example.
Also I see no mention of new fangled toothbrushs. I use one of them inside my scull everymorning.
I am too stupid to figure out how to read more then the blurb. Maybe it is the toothbrush's fault.
I'm afraid it's too late to fix that now. Never again insert objects into your skull!
Actually not just the DNA strands broke. After being continuosly shaven for 48 hours the rats developped a skin rash too.
The problem is not the different package managers, but that you almost invariably run into dependency hell when trying to install binary packages. This is due to the fact that most distributions install software in a way that makes it difficult to concurrently use different versions of software.
/package/name/version/{bin,lib,...}
If the distribution installed software in a directory structure that included the package and version name, dependent packages could be configured to use different versions of the same packages.
If a new end user tool required a new version of a library, the existing tools that used the old version should not have to change.
Like so:
There would always be points of contentions, of course, like user config-file format changes between versions, but situation would be substantially improved.
I believe I saw a reference to a distribution that worked similar to this.
So is the clock-wise swastika. In (Hindu) India, the clock-wise swastika seems to be more common.
It is extremely confusing for a westerner to see ambulances and pharmacies with the "red swastika" or signs like "Swastika spices, Jewtown" (Jewtown is a township in Kochi, Kerala).
Why? Because ASN.1 is the Mos Eisley of bit-twiddly protocols
...), and only with those it becomes "bit-twiddly protocols".
First of all ASN.1 is just that an "abstract syntax notation" it says nothing, or very little, about encoding. It comes with a bunch of encoding rules (BER, DER, XER, PER, whatnot,
Now, the point of DER is that there should be a unique representation of data, so that there is no doubt what bits signatures are made over. Accomplishing the same thing for XML-signatures was no simple feat! DER is the shortest form of BER, the other commonly used encoding rule.
Then there is XER, an XML encoding rule, which turns ASN.1 data structures into documents that look remarkably much like other XML documents, only the structure being defined by a text document in ASN.1 rather than a DTD or XML schema.
ASN.1 is one of these broad-scope protocols that tries to be everything to everybody
Unlike what other syntax notation? Not unlike SGML, XML DTDs or XML schemas, surely?
t also does some other things that are useful in a top-down hierarchical world controlled by all-knowing standards committees
Oh, yeah, it defines a data type for a hierarchical name in a name space owned by a standards committe! That's so unique! (If you don't like it, invent your own, ASN.1 has space for it!)
And then your first claim: but it's so ugly that everybody tends to reuse the reference implementation rather than rewriting their own
Far from everybody. Just like XML parsers not everyone feels it worth the pain to write their own {D,B}ER-{en,de}coders, but there are quite a few independent implementations. Granted, not all of them are open source. My ex-employer had two in-house implementations (one C, one java), so its not like it is impossible.
What is the difference between this scheme and signing the picture on the computer? That is, how would it prove anything beyond that you claim this to be a good representation of what you saw when you took the picture?
specs which could foresee future futher away than say 4-6 years
Many people can't see further than their specs.
In related news, the first action of the robot scientist was to post frist post comments on Slashdot.
You're whole "unique arches to avoid confusion with holiday snaps" argument is ridiculous too.
Yes indeed. It is a joke. How did you ever get modded "insightful"?
This is why the Euro notes depict arches etc that do not have any real counterpart: ECB didn't want to fuck with people who were photoshopping their holiday pictures. Since the features depicted on the euro notes don't appear in real life, no photos will be blocked by PS (except for those "pile of money" photos appearing in the business section of your news paper. They will henceforth only be piles of monopoly money -- close enough to fool the eye, but not blocked by PS).
4. Decide whether Iraqi cellphones will use GSM or CDMA
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That has already been done. GSM: http://www.gsmworld.com/news/press_2003/press_14.
And remember: one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
Actually no. The Geneva conventions are pretty strict on what you are allowed to do as a combattant (you must stand under command, wear a uniform or other sign, show your weapons before and under attack, and you must of course only attack target other combattants or military installations).
If you are not a combattant you are a civilian and bound by whatever laws were in effect in the country before the war. In most countries that makes killing people murder or manslaughter.
So, suicide bombings are always illegal, and a war crime, even if they target soldiers.
Not to mention pretty much everything but the thirteen states (yeah, you bought Louisiana and Alaska, but the rest).
There's a fourth option, that probably is the first option for a lot of businesses: Approach the author and see if they can buy a commercial license.
The Western Sahara is a different issue. Spain was ocuppying it during the days of european colonization and it was taken back about 3 decades ago at the end of a "million men" peaceful march. Since then, Spain has been trying to make it an independant country so that they could fish within it's territorial waters for cheap. Now THAT is a very touchy subject for your average moroccan. You know..pride, territorial integrity, yadda yadda. The government has been stalling a referendum supposed to take place there and giving incentives to Moroccans to relocate there in hopes of skewing a future vote.
To put it differently, the Saharawi, the indigeneous people in West Sahara, has tried to make themselves independent since the 50's. In 1975 the Spanish colonial administration was replaced with a Moroccan and Mauretanian colonial administration. The UN and the ICJ has repeatedly rejected the Moroccan and Mauretanian claims to West Sahara.
http://www.wsahara.net/ seems to represent the view of the subjungated.
(The world doesn't seem to be all that upset. I guess colonies are all right then, as long as the colonial masters aren't westerners.)
It doesn't really cost all that much less, today, to built a 300mhz CPU than a 3000mhz one.
Uhm, yeah, but a 300 MHz CPU draws a whole lot less power than a 3 GHz one, so it doesn't need as fancy cooling, it can be made smaller. Also, it's not just the CPU:s that have grown, so have the video adapters etc. A lot of the functionality of a 1997 computer can be probably be integrated into a few chips, making for substantial cost reductions.
Flextronics, the contract manufacturer possibly best known for its production of many Cisco products
Flextronics would be best known for the production of any electronics that traditionally was made by a company near you. Or Flextronics would be best known for doing the dirty work of moving jobs to Asia so that it doesn't reflect badly on major western brands.
It's one thing to make known your beliefs, but to claim someone is intentionally breaking a law is no laughing matter.
Who said they broke the law? SCO claims they are trying to undermine it, e.g. change it. That's legal in many countries.
It's JUST like being unemployed. Except you get paid. That is, if your pay is more than my unemployment check, that is....
Mac OS X specifically. I export a few DAV "shares" over https from my wardrobe server and they mount fine in Windows (web folders). Mac OS X 10.2 unfortunately wouldn't (DAV over http is fine, of course).
It seems like such a brain haemorrage to leave that out.
What I want to know is if DAV over https is supported yet.
I have a licentiate, which is a Swedish degree between the Master and the Doctorate degrees. It is both used as a way to keep track of PhD students and as a bail-out mechanism when you need one. When I first called on the job ad for the job I eventually got, the recruiting boss' immediate reaction was that I was not suited. I was persistent so I did indeed get to the interview, and from there on there were no problems. So as long as you get to the interview your degree is probably not a problem (unless you really got brain damaged at the university, those things happens, you know).
Caveats: I am Swedish, and I have my degree in Physics, so I guess I didn't really answer the question, but it was fun to talk.
There is even a term for this, it is called "a hierarchic anomaly".
Europeans wanted a super-state, they've got it. Oh wait... Cancel that. Nobody told the poor schmucks that they would eventually end up in a remake of the Ottoman Empire.
Naw, we are not finished yet. It is time to make it a parliamentary democracy. That is, pass all the legislative power of the union to the European parliament.