Right, but I think it's important to understand that the system was designed to have those limitations. When the US constitution was written, `nationalism' (or loyalty to a larger political body) was limited to the states. The system was designed to that the states could stay strong and independent, and the national government was just supposed to do the things that you would need a national government for- combined defense, negotiating disagreements between states.
In other words, the primary political power in the US was supposed to be the states. In other words, bad national representation didn't matter because all decisions of merit came from your state government.
Of course, it didn't work out that way, and (in my experience) there isn't that much strong loyalty to the state governments anymore. Still, the ascendency of the federal government is kind of recent, so we haven't fixed this problem yet.
I'm going to go ahead and be hopeful now, and assume that the political atmosphere will get sane again, and that within the next few years there will be a national dialogue on this sort of reform. It's about time we had another amendment;).
How is it a fair comparison to take the windows binaries out of the context of their menus but leave the Ubuntu apps in the context of theirs?
Wow. That seems like a very fair criticism, exposing a biased post. Unless, of course, you read the first line of the grandparent:
Let's do the comparison one more time using the names in my Ubuntu Breezy menus vs. the EXE names on Windows. Fair is fair, right?
Huh. Wow. It looks like he already knew that. In fact, it looks like he already knows that it's a stupid way of making a comparison. But you, of course, missed the sarcasm.
Maybe he was making a point about the article or a previous post through sarcasm and a counterexample? But you couldn't be bothered to read the article or even the thread.
why are my server logs filled with artifacts of hacked IIS boxes but apache seems to remain pretty safe?
Well, that used to be true for me, but recently I've been seeing a whole lot of stuff like the following:
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist:/home/henry/htdocs/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist:/home/henry/htdocs/drupal/xmlrpc.php
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist:/home/henry/htdocs/phpgroupware/xmlrpc.php
And honestly, alot more of that than IIS exploits, though I admit that that worm is relatively new. There is also this old worm for win32 Apache that has tried my server, on an almost daily basis and from different IPs, for the past year. So it's not like Apache worms aren't out there- and they certainly seem prevalent to me.
The Java is slow myth is a load of hogwash that opponents of the technology use to justify their stance against it. It's simply not true
Erm. Bullshit. You're using the wrong performance metric. An end user includes in the speed of a program:
Startup time
GUI responsiveness
Execution time
Shutdown time
The only area where Java is 'fast enough' is execution time. Java desktop apps are slow to start, have unresponsive GUIs, and are often sluggish when it comes to stopping. To the end user, there have been very few improvements in Java over the past ten years.
Oh, and before I stop, may I point out that Java's GUI responsiveness problem is one entirely of its own making? There are plenty of cross-platform languages out there with cross-platform GUIs that are decent. This is not an impossible problem, in fact, it's a solved problem. It just seems that Sun hasn't gotten around to solving it.
Ah, windows. The only operating system where drivers stop working, there is no goddamn error message (correction: Useful error message. 'Device not working' doesn't count) and EVERYTHING WORKS. It works fine under Linux, and if you swap the damn NIC to a different PCI slot it will work fine. I've had this happen to me in 2k Pro and XP Pro, same symptoms, same solution. No, uninstalling and reinstalling the driver didn't work.
In the end, Windows loses because of a lack of transparency. !@#$
There seems to be a lot of this "Firefox had it first, IE is just copying Firefox" type coments going around. But why not copy good features from other applications? If the features that Firefox "had first" are so great (and they are), I would expect other browser developers to integrate simular feature. Just because Firefox had them first doesn't mean Firefox has exclusive rights to them.
Perhaps because we endured months of the standard Microsoft party line, which said, among other things: Tabbed browsing is bad, it confuses the user. It's the hypocrisy, not the (long-awaited) feature creep that bugs us.
The word "Free" in "FreeBSD" actually means exactly what it says. As a user of FreeBSD, I am personally given more freedom than I get as a user of Debian Sarge (I use both).
Bullshit. The GPL has absolutely NO RESTRICTIONS on what the user does with or to the software. The only restrictions are on distributors- just like the BSD license. The GPL, however, is a bit harder on distributors- it mandates you have to give the full source to your users at cost. There are reasons to not use the GPL, but freedom to use? Bullshit.
You can still buy it from iD. In fact, you can buy all of their old games from their website.
Still, I'm not sure I'd recommend it. I bought it recently, and I dunno. The single player stank (though I expected that:P), and the multi-player experience has already fragmented into ten-thousand little communities, each of which plays it's own special version of the game. Except for the Demon UK servers I suppose, they were the only server I could find that A) had human players on often and B) ran a reasonably vanilla Quake 3 server. And it still wasn't that great, as I stank and had a hard time adjusting to the non-lag adjusted gameplay. (I also live in California so the ping is a tad high) On the other hand, if you can get a LAN party going, it's quite entertaining.
No one says it isn't going to be x86, and I'm sure Intel would have if it were. The article speculates that it's going to be `t3h best, chip, EVAR', and it's going to use a different underlying architecture, have a large amount of cache, and have a core dedicated to translating x86 instructions to whatever it uses natively.
Why? Because, apparently, the guys who designed FX!32 work for Intel, in addition to some Russians I've never heard of, who (according to TFA, I can't read cyrillic) apparently wrote a very cool compiler.
Because we geeks are busy getting ready for one of those zillion parties we alway get invited to?
No, because we're doing even geekier things. I, for instance, know a guy who, at this very moment, is vacuuming out an old Mac and installing NetBSD on an UltraSparc 4. Which totally cuts down on your Slashdot time.
You thought it was sad? Odd, I laughed all through the article. How can you tell that it's more of a joke than a serious thing? How about the final line:
"I think CS graduates have a better chance than most rappers at calculating and devising hitherto unheard rhyme pairings," he said. "50 Cent has dance clubs and oral sex, we have awesome video cards."
There are several things that bother me about this initiative. First, Creative Commons is similar to a license. You sign up with the group and post a message saying that your material is protected or covered by Creative Commons. This means that others have certain rights to reuse the material under a variety of provisos, mostly as long as the reuse is not for commercial purposes.
The emphasis was mine. Now, check this out from the Creative Commons web site:
Offering your work under a Creative Commons license does not mean giving up your copyright. It means offering some of your rights to any taker, and only on certain conditions.
What conditions? Our site will let you mix and match such conditions from the list of options below. There are a total of eleven Creative Commons licenses to choose from.
Ahem. First: IT IS A LICENSE. Just like the GPL, the MPL, the BSD license and ten thousand others. It.Is.A.License. Which means that I can release my work, explicitly tell people what they can do with it, and under what terms. The CC guys are releasing pre-written licenses that cover common situations, which is a Good Thing(tm) because every dweeb who writes some crappy web novel isn't forced to write his own license, and because it promotes explicit licensing of individual's work before it becomes an issue- like when some other dweeb steals it and puts their name on it.
There, see Dvorak? That wasn't so hard. It has a purpose. To promote explicit licensing (a prophylactic, to be sure) and to promote sane licensing so content can be re-used.
Slashdot Mirror
In other words, the primary political power in the US was supposed to be the states. In other words, bad national representation didn't matter because all decisions of merit came from your state government.
Of course, it didn't work out that way, and (in my experience) there isn't that much strong loyalty to the state governments anymore. Still, the ascendency of the federal government is kind of recent, so we haven't fixed this problem yet.
I'm going to go ahead and be hopeful now, and assume that the political atmosphere will get sane again, and that within the next few years there will be a national dialogue on this sort of reform. It's about time we had another amendment ;).
Wow. That seems like a very fair criticism, exposing a biased post. Unless, of course, you read the first line of the grandparent:
Huh. Wow. It looks like he already knew that. In fact, it looks like he already knows that it's a stupid way of making a comparison. But you, of course, missed the sarcasm.
Maybe he was making a point about the article or a previous post through sarcasm and a counterexample? But you couldn't be bothered to read the article or even the thread.
That's true. But AFAIK, it also relies on a poorly configured Apache install.
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist: /home/henry/htdocs/blogs/xmlsrv/xmlrpc.php
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist: /home/henry/htdocs/drupal/xmlrpc.php
[error] [client ***.***.***.***] File does not exist: /home/henry/htdocs/phpgroupware/xmlrpc.php
And honestly, alot more of that than IIS exploits, though I admit that that worm is relatively new. There is also this old worm for win32 Apache that has tried my server, on an almost daily basis and from different IPs, for the past year. So it's not like Apache worms aren't out there- and they certainly seem prevalent to me.Actually, Firefox doesn't use the GNOME file selector, the Mozilla people wrote their own.
No. This is a common misconception. They need to provide the relevant source code, to their customers, at cost.
The Pentium 4s have a naming scheme?
- Startup time
- GUI responsiveness
- Execution time
- Shutdown time
The only area where Java is 'fast enough' is execution time. Java desktop apps are slow to start, have unresponsive GUIs, and are often sluggish when it comes to stopping. To the end user, there have been very few improvements in Java over the past ten years.Oh, and before I stop, may I point out that Java's GUI responsiveness problem is one entirely of its own making? There are plenty of cross-platform languages out there with cross-platform GUIs that are decent. This is not an impossible problem, in fact, it's a solved problem. It just seems that Sun hasn't gotten around to solving it.
I really doubt that. Most gaming systems were never meant to be consumed.
Doesn't Wil Wheaton have a slashdot account? Perhaps we should ask him...
In the end, Windows loses because of a lack of transparency. !@#$
Perhaps because we endured months of the standard Microsoft party line, which said, among other things: Tabbed browsing is bad, it confuses the user. It's the hypocrisy, not the (long-awaited) feature creep that bugs us.
Ah, see, it's just that there is no lag compensation in vanilla Q3A. Just a heads up ;).
Bullshit. The GPL has absolutely NO RESTRICTIONS on what the user does with or to the software. The only restrictions are on distributors- just like the BSD license. The GPL, however, is a bit harder on distributors- it mandates you have to give the full source to your users at cost. There are reasons to not use the GPL, but freedom to use? Bullshit.
Still, I'm not sure I'd recommend it. I bought it recently, and I dunno. The single player stank (though I expected that :P), and the multi-player experience has already fragmented into ten-thousand little communities, each of which plays it's own special version of the game. Except for the Demon UK servers I suppose, they were the only server I could find that A) had human players on often and B) ran a reasonably vanilla Quake 3 server. And it still wasn't that great, as I stank and had a hard time adjusting to the non-lag adjusted gameplay. (I also live in California so the ping is a tad high) On the other hand, if you can get a LAN party going, it's quite entertaining.
RTFA.
No one says it isn't going to be x86, and I'm sure Intel would have if it were. The article speculates that it's going to be `t3h best, chip, EVAR', and it's going to use a different underlying architecture, have a large amount of cache, and have a core dedicated to translating x86 instructions to whatever it uses natively.
Why? Because, apparently, the guys who designed FX!32 work for Intel, in addition to some Russians I've never heard of, who (according to TFA, I can't read cyrillic) apparently wrote a very cool compiler.
Aww... come on dad...
One more week?
No, because we're doing even geekier things. I, for instance, know a guy who, at this very moment, is vacuuming out an old Mac and installing NetBSD on an UltraSparc 4. Which totally cuts down on your Slashdot time.
In Korea, only old people make fun of Slashdot cliches...
The emphasis was mine. Now, check this out from the Creative Commons web site:
Ahem. First: IT IS A LICENSE. Just like the GPL, the MPL, the BSD license and ten thousand others. It.Is.A.License. Which means that I can release my work, explicitly tell people what they can do with it, and under what terms. The CC guys are releasing pre-written licenses that cover common situations, which is a Good Thing(tm) because every dweeb who writes some crappy web novel isn't forced to write his own license, and because it promotes explicit licensing of individual's work before it becomes an issue- like when some other dweeb steals it and puts their name on it.
There, see Dvorak? That wasn't so hard. It has a purpose. To promote explicit licensing (a prophylactic, to be sure) and to promote sane licensing so content can be re-used.
Aah... I've been enlightened :).
What was that turbo button for? IIRC, it didn't do... anything. At all. On any operating system.
And if you're looking for some place to recycle them, and you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out the ACCRC!
Seriously though, they're pretty cool, and all the boxes they resurrect get sent out with SuSe.
(I figure that last bit might make this comment germane. Sorta. Ok, so not much, and not really. But I tried right?)