How do I get a one-off patch for a bug fix in MySQL at 2am Sunday morning when I need the fix in order to get back into production? And don't tell me to do it myself because that is not how businesses functions. It needs to be a MtSQL supported fix.
Call support?:p It did mention support, available at a price below or equal to the support available from the others. It seems that what you are looking for is 2395.00/Server/Year (30 minutes emergency response).
Let me say first: I'm not an artist. I can't draw at all, and modeling is hard for me.
Yet, I picked up Blenders interface in less than 15 minutes. How? I went to wikibooks, found a tutorial, quickly went over the first part (all that was written at the time) and that was it. I even made a face that sort-of looked like one, which is a huge success in my case:)
So, excuse me sir, if I can do it, so can you. And considering that modeling takes hours and hours, even for the good modelers, 15 minutes is a drop in the ocean.
I do not subscribe to the relativistic argument:) I believe that most question have an absolute answer of some sort, e.g., either Stalin smoked a cigar every Sunday morning, or he did not. That we have no way of knowing which does not alter the fact that there is, indeed, a right answer. But no do I subscribe to the trusted source philosophy that so many does. Most articles in the paper are probably (mostly) correct, but some are incorrect to varying degrees. Most entries in an encyclopedia are correct, but some are not. And so on. You can check multiple sources, and get a more likely truth, but you can never be certain unless you have a primary source. E.g., you can find that holding your hand in boiling water does indeed damage your hand. Likewise, you can go to Iraq and see the actual conditions there, but probably you want to rely on secondary information rather than checking yourself. Sometimes, there are no primary source available, and we have to rely on secondary sources... but that doesn't mean that they are correct! Take Atlantis as an example.
The problem with that article is that it is saying "This wikipedia is useless and here is why"... in spite the fact(!) that it is hugely usefull. No amount of arguing that this should not be so will get around this. So in my world, it is useless ranting... just like saying that KDE is a useless desktop environment because nearly anyone can contribute.
I don't buy the consensus argument... at least not if only 90% agrees. Better to say it is a controversial topic. The world is not a simple place, and the minority view might be as important or interesting as the majority. Total fringe views could be excluded or simply referred to (such as creationism etc.)
As to having to fight your commits... this is something I see everywhere in opensource like models. Yet, for all the powercrazy community members, it somehow works anyway. Yes, there are losses and waste, silly mistakes etc, but all in all, it works more time than it does not. And the result speaks for itself. These days, wikipedia is my first point of reference for many, many subjects and very seldom have I been let down.
I think you have hit the nail on the head dead-on in terms of the "Encyclopedia" distinction.
But wikipedia is an encyclopedia going by all definitions of the word I could find. People trust untrustable sources all the time (e.g, newpapers, teachers, salesmen). That does not make the source worthless.
I teach a Research Methods class for a small liberal arts college in the U.S. [...]
Wikipedia presents a whole new onion to peel - students see the word "Encyclopedia" and associate it with what they've been taught in primary and high school education systems: The information you find in an Encyclopedia is valid.
If you are a teacher in research, I surely hope that you teach them that any encyclopedia is worthless as a source to cite. Though I do realize that "research" means altogether different things in the "hard" sciences and the "soft" sciences, I know that encycleopedias are at best untrustworthy source for any specialized information. Wikipedia actually has a better track record with me there, going by my occasional look up in some area of my own expertise (General Topology, you can search for my master degree if you care, though it is in Danish).
That being said, sure, other Encyclopedias become dated or contain inaccuracies, but the fundamental difference is that someone is accountable and culpable for correcting those mistakes or lack of updates. When information in Encyclopedia Brittanica goes out of date, someone corrects the information. With Wikipedia, there's no accountability. There's no impetus for someone to go back and fact check. Wikipedia relies on other users to "pipe up" when they feel its necessary to - and even then those who pipe up may or may not be a qualified source on a particular issue.
I doubt anyone is culpable for making a mistake while writing any encyclopedia or other material. At worst, they might loose their job, I suppose. As for incentive, the incentive for correcting the wiki is the same as writing it in the first place. I am not sure what the incentive for updating a written encycleopedia is, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen, but I do know that such updates would seldom or never make it out to the shelves, and even if it did make it, would probably be lost as an appendix or similar. As for qualified --- who knows who gets the best qualified person(s) to write the article? As I said, in my (very small) area, wikipedia is more accurate and a lot more comprehensive than the printed encycleopedias I have seen. I do realize that my area is hardly controversial with personal attacks etc.
Granted, not every article on Wikipedia suffers from these problems, and not every article needs a "qualified source," (for instance, what are the necessary qualifications for an article outlining the history of the Smurfs?) but the "encyclopedia" distinction is one that almost implies that the information contained within is credible, reliable, and subject to qualified review. Wikipedia is just as flawed as slashdot.
I can hardly believe a person with an acedemical background would resort to that sort of argument. Not every? I would be extremely surprised if 10% of the non-stub articles are more inaccurate than they printed brethren. I recall seeing some numbers on this, but I can't recall them offhand. And what is that "wikipedia is just as flawed as slashdot"? That sort of argument should be below one such as yourself. If you have issues with wikipedia or slashdot, point to concrete errors with either instead of making cheap retorics.
The thing that seems most obvious is that why would these "wiki-fiddlers" get so annoyed if what Andrew was writing wasn't true? They would simply laugh it off, or come up with constructive arguments. But no, they simply shout "TROLL, he doesnt know what hes talking about, he stupid yayayaya".
Ah, the good old argument that if people get upset about argument A, it must be true. Did you really think that would fly?:)
Anyway, wikipedia is the best source for information in blank areas that I know. That fact alone means that I, indeed, do not care what some 3rd-rate, advert-financed tabloid of dubious credibility has to say about it;)
Nope. I can install XP easy, but the Ubuntu cd i have here won't install...
So? Gentoo installed like a breeze on my new hardware, but windows XP could not. It kept complaining that no hard disk were present, even though there were 2 perfectly find SATA disks present --- I believe SATA is the standard these days, at least I didn't get out of my way to get these disks. It then proceded to ask me for a windows driver, which I presumably had on the a CD, on a diskette, which I did not. As I don't actually own a diskette drive, I gave up after a week or so fighting this.
I have since heard of a few more people having exactly this issue. Also some that did not with a similar setup. *shrug*
I even went as far as borrow a set up service pack 2 (?) install CDs just to try if that would work.. no change.
In conclusion, I won't be playing a game one of my friends helped develop, but other than that, I don't miss windows anyway. Gentoo is much simpler to use, at least for an old mathematician like me. And now that my work laptop is also pure linux (RHEL4xx, a customized version i think) I am happy with my setup
The point is, from anecdotal evidence, windows is just as hard to install as linux. That is, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Unless someone cares to do a real statistical analysis, that is as close as we will ever get.
A problem for whom? Do you have any good statistical data to back up the assertion that speeding is a problem? Not trolling just interested if that was opinion / truism or not.
Don't know about UK, but in DK about 1 in 5 casualties of traffic is thought to be caused speeding. Those are the official numbers. I would imagine that the numbers are not so different in UK.
Of course, such numbers comes with the usual reservations. No one knows if the casualty would have been suffered if the speeder had not, in fact, speeded.
There is "A tale in the desert".... online, MMORPG thing, but very different. Free trial, so check it out --- it is very different from other MMORPG, so you might like it even though you didn't like Everquest/WoW etc.
I don't know how a filter is supposed to recognize every conceivable pop culture reference. We know it's famous, but an algorhythm wouldn't.
If I hypothetically was going to play WoW, how would I be able to create a name that I know would not look like someone who is famous somewhere? What if I happen to choose the name of some American famous person (say a senator) by accident? An Australian minister? Some trance "music" person? I certainly would never know
Luckily, I'm not playing WoW, but atitd. From the names I've seen, I think pretty much anything goes. Oh, and ridiculous names get, well, ridiculed by your peers, and everyone is allowed one name change. A much better way to handle things.
Well, try something not trivia (such as litterature references to Julies Caeser surely is!) such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka mad cow disease). I happen to have an expert at hand in this area (my wife) and she tells me it is rather good.
The "hit rate" of wikipedia articles are on par with traditional encyclopedias in my opinion... that is, a good place to start, but with lots of omissions, quite a few inaccuracies and some right out errors. I don't mind that (in either case), as I understand the limits of the encycleopeadic format, however you spell that:o)
For my money, closing the wikipedia much more than creating static pages, barring anonymous users and such minor adjustments would cause greater harm than good. However, I do not claim to be able to predict the future with much accuracy.
I will murder any person who would suggest to use Rational process tools for any project that I participate in (other then their profiler, though it is also ugly).
See, that is why I love open source developers. You just don't get passion that like anywhere else
Free trial, free download, runs on 3 platforms (mac, linux-x32, win32) and very fun game. The graphics are unstunning, but good enough. The community is great, and there is some great game play. No sword, no axes and no violence, though.
Also very few distros make it easy to change screen res/refresh rate using a standard desktop tool because it is up to the distro maintainer or KDE/Gnome people to figure out the xorg.conf file format and all of xorg's idiosynchracies.
That at least, is untrue. I have a small kicker applet (installed by default, part of KDE) which lets you select the resolution/refresh rate from a dropdown. Works a charm.
When a situation evolves when someone needs to make a quick brake/accelerate/maneuver decision, the quickest reaction is to step on it, which won't respond
While I do not know the system deployed here, the other system I have seen (a Swedish, I believe) worked so that if you stepped on it, the system would automatically deactivate and allow the driver to accelerate.
Modern 21" monitors weigh less than 70 lbs and 19" less than 50 lbs (link link link link), so you guys breaking your backs over 50 lbs are not exactly hitting the gym too often are ya?
Lol. My thoughts exactly. My exercise is just the occasional gardening work, and I had few problems setting my monitor in place. Never moved it since, but I can't imagine it would be a problem if I did.
And LCD monitors may get better, but currently the resolution suck. Try comparing the price for a (max res) 1920x1440 CRT to to a LCD capable of the same resolution. Then note the prices. Paying 20x more for monitor is just not a realistic option.
Just cut all patents for everything (yup even medicines) down to 3 years and the world will be a shinier place.
If that is from the day the patent is filed, that would leave the companies with -7 (minus seven) years to sell the stuff after going through the government-enforced license requirements. At least in this contry.
However, 3 times after obtaining the required license to sell is fair. Of course, in software, there is no licenses requirement and thus the patent would expire after 3 years after filing. I would think this would be exceedingly fair to all (Maybe it should 2 years, maybe 4... but that should be calculable).
You would need quite a few. Just the combination of the first 8 notes is 26^7=8,031,810,176, assuming the first note's placement is irrelevant, and assuming up to an octave's jump in value either way. That is discounting rythmic variations, which would add quite a few extra combos.
The outcome space for a melody is astoundingly large.
Why are people here up in arms when GPL code is stolen, but not when copyrighted music or movies are illegally downloaded or swapped?
Some are immoral, some think there is a difference (not I) and some are just different people (like me). I am equally exasperated about both cases of theft, but I like most people, feel more for the little guy than the big one. The latter is probably because the big ones can answer for themselves.
So to answer you question: When the good outweighs the bad. Trivial example: If a life could be saved by illegally copying something and not by other reasonable means, that would be OK.
First, the offer was to make a php script that allowed users to vote on them, and... well in her own words:
I don't doubt that the offer was made with the best intentions. However, why not use bugzilla's vote mechanism? Gnome doesn't use them, it seems, but KDE has Most wanted bugs. I don't know why you think bugzilla's voting system is broken, so I won't comment on that.
When I said the result are skewed I meant that the population is smaller, and different, from the Gnome user population at large. This is true for the bugzilla votes, and this would be true for a website poll. This might be why the Gnome people have disabled votes, though I don't know.
As for the parenthesized statement, this was not speculation from GP, nor was it speculation from Thom Holwerda nor Eugenia, but rather came out in thread itself.
It is, in any case, a common misconception that I take offense at. Certainly, any support requested by someone expressing that view would go to the very bottom of my todo list. Developers are not, as a rule, selfless bastards. But usually our priorities differs from someone else, and thus the moaning and bitching (like the parenthesized statement) ensues.
The Gnome people have made an excellent beginner's desktop. They should be applauded. Why not encourage rather than complain? Honey works better than vinegar, usually.
feature will get coded is if a dev wants to do it (ie has a need for it personally).
That parenthesized statement does not follow, despite the ie. Case in point: When I'm implementing something, I often pick it from an often requested fix/feature in bugzilla. When I'm in maintainer mode, this is the way I usually do it.
Besides, the offer she did is nearly worthless. Most bugzillas already have voting system, and her results would be as skewed as the results of these. If you want to do more, you need to ask the users that never votes for anything.
Irrelevant. You need to have people talk in their mobile handset for hours before you would see any radiation hazard in that power range. And that has not been common for more than a few (
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So hiring a "professional", then asking him to "take care of" a business rival is ok? :o)
Call support? :p It did mention support, available at a price below or equal to the support available from the others. It seems that what you are looking for is 2395.00/Server/Year (30 minutes emergency response).
Let me say first: I'm not an artist. I can't draw at all, and modeling is hard for me.
Yet, I picked up Blenders interface in less than 15 minutes. How? I went to wikibooks, found a tutorial, quickly went over the first part (all that was written at the time) and that was it. I even made a face that sort-of looked like one, which is a huge success in my case :)
So, excuse me sir, if I can do it, so can you. And considering that modeling takes hours and hours, even for the good modelers, 15 minutes is a drop in the ocean.
I do not subscribe to the relativistic argument :) I believe that most question have an absolute answer of some sort, e.g., either Stalin smoked a cigar every Sunday morning, or he did not. That we have no way of knowing which does not alter the fact that there is, indeed, a right answer. But no do I subscribe to the trusted source philosophy that so many does. Most articles in the paper are probably (mostly) correct, but some are incorrect to varying degrees. Most entries in an encyclopedia are correct, but some are not. And so on. You can check multiple sources, and get a more likely truth, but you can never be certain unless you have a primary source. E.g., you can find that holding your hand in boiling water does indeed damage your hand. Likewise, you can go to Iraq and see the actual conditions there, but probably you want to rely on secondary information rather than checking yourself. Sometimes, there are no primary source available, and we have to rely on secondary sources... but that doesn't mean that they are correct! Take Atlantis as an example.
The problem with that article is that it is saying "This wikipedia is useless and here is why" ... in spite the fact(!) that it is hugely usefull. No amount of arguing that this should not be so will get around this. So in my world, it is useless ranting... just like saying that KDE is a useless desktop environment because nearly anyone can contribute.
I don't buy the consensus argument... at least not if only 90% agrees. Better to say it is a controversial topic. The world is not a simple place, and the minority view might be as important or interesting as the majority. Total fringe views could be excluded or simply referred to (such as creationism etc.)
As to having to fight your commits... this is something I see everywhere in opensource like models. Yet, for all the powercrazy community members, it somehow works anyway. Yes, there are losses and waste, silly mistakes etc, but all in all, it works more time than it does not. And the result speaks for itself. These days, wikipedia is my first point of reference for many, many subjects and very seldom have I been let down.
But wikipedia is an encyclopedia going by all definitions of the word I could find. People trust untrustable sources all the time (e.g, newpapers, teachers, salesmen). That does not make the source worthless.
If you are a teacher in research, I surely hope that you teach them that any encyclopedia is worthless as a source to cite. Though I do realize that "research" means altogether different things in the "hard" sciences and the "soft" sciences, I know that encycleopedias are at best untrustworthy source for any specialized information. Wikipedia actually has a better track record with me there, going by my occasional look up in some area of my own expertise (General Topology, you can search for my master degree if you care, though it is in Danish).
I doubt anyone is culpable for making a mistake while writing any encyclopedia or other material. At worst, they might loose their job, I suppose. As for incentive, the incentive for correcting the wiki is the same as writing it in the first place. I am not sure what the incentive for updating a written encycleopedia is, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't happen, but I do know that such updates would seldom or never make it out to the shelves, and even if it did make it, would probably be lost as an appendix or similar. As for qualified --- who knows who gets the best qualified person(s) to write the article? As I said, in my (very small) area, wikipedia is more accurate and a lot more comprehensive than the printed encycleopedias I have seen. I do realize that my area is hardly controversial with personal attacks etc.
I can hardly believe a person with an acedemical background would resort to that sort of argument. Not every? I would be extremely surprised if 10% of the non-stub articles are more inaccurate than they printed brethren. I recall seeing some numbers on this, but I can't recall them offhand. And what is that "wikipedia is just as flawed as slashdot"? That sort of argument should be below one such as yourself. If you have issues with wikipedia or slashdot, point to concrete errors with either instead of making cheap retorics.
I won't even quote the last line.
Ah, the good old argument that if people get upset about argument A, it must be true. Did you really think that would fly? :)
Anyway, wikipedia is the best source for information in blank areas that I know. That fact alone means that I, indeed, do not care what some 3rd-rate, advert-financed tabloid of dubious credibility has to say about it ;)
So? Gentoo installed like a breeze on my new hardware, but windows XP could not. It kept complaining that no hard disk were present, even though there were 2 perfectly find SATA disks present --- I believe SATA is the standard these days, at least I didn't get out of my way to get these disks. It then proceded to ask me for a windows driver, which I presumably had on the a CD, on a diskette, which I did not. As I don't actually own a diskette drive, I gave up after a week or so fighting this.
I have since heard of a few more people having exactly this issue. Also some that did not with a similar setup. *shrug*
I even went as far as borrow a set up service pack 2 (?) install CDs just to try if that would work.. no change.
In conclusion, I won't be playing a game one of my friends helped develop, but other than that, I don't miss windows anyway. Gentoo is much simpler to use, at least for an old mathematician like me. And now that my work laptop is also pure linux (RHEL4xx, a customized version i think) I am happy with my setup
The point is, from anecdotal evidence, windows is just as hard to install as linux. That is, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Unless someone cares to do a real statistical analysis, that is as close as we will ever get.
Don't know about UK, but in DK about 1 in 5 casualties of traffic is thought to be caused speeding. Those are the official numbers. I would imagine that the numbers are not so different in UK.
Of course, such numbers comes with the usual reservations. No one knows if the casualty would have been suffered if the speeder had not, in fact, speeded.
There is "A tale in the desert".... online, MMORPG thing, but very different. Free trial, so check it out --- it is very different from other MMORPG, so you might like it even though you didn't like Everquest/WoW etc.
If I hypothetically was going to play WoW, how would I be able to create a name that I know would not look like someone who is famous somewhere? What if I happen to choose the name of some American famous person (say a senator) by accident? An Australian minister? Some trance "music" person? I certainly would never know
Luckily, I'm not playing WoW, but atitd. From the names I've seen, I think pretty much anything goes. Oh, and ridiculous names get, well, ridiculed by your peers, and everyone is allowed one name change. A much better way to handle things.
e) you don't have to lift the fuel.
Most of the weight comes from the fuel, not the payload.
Well, try something not trivia (such as litterature references to Julies Caeser surely is!) such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (aka mad cow disease). I happen to have an expert at hand in this area (my wife) and she tells me it is rather good.
The "hit rate" of wikipedia articles are on par with traditional encyclopedias in my opinion... that is, a good place to start, but with lots of omissions, quite a few inaccuracies and some right out errors. I don't mind that (in either case), as I understand the limits of the encycleopeadic format, however you spell that :o)
For my money, closing the wikipedia much more than creating static pages, barring anonymous users and such minor adjustments would cause greater harm than good. However, I do not claim to be able to predict the future with much accuracy.
You mean like A tale in the desert?
Free trial, free download, runs on 3 platforms (mac, linux-x32, win32) and very fun game. The graphics are unstunning, but good enough. The community is great, and there is some great game play. No sword, no axes and no violence, though.
I'd expect a lot of wailing, and possibly some tantrums
That at least, is untrue. I have a small kicker applet (installed by default, part of KDE) which lets you select the resolution/refresh rate from a dropdown. Works a charm.
While I do not know the system deployed here, the other system I have seen (a Swedish, I believe) worked so that if you stepped on it, the system would automatically deactivate and allow the driver to accelerate.
If that is from the day the patent is filed, that would leave the companies with -7 (minus seven) years to sell the stuff after going through the government-enforced license requirements. At least in this contry.
However, 3 times after obtaining the required license to sell is fair. Of course, in software, there is no licenses requirement and thus the patent would expire after 3 years after filing. I would think this would be exceedingly fair to all (Maybe it should 2 years, maybe 4... but that should be calculable).
You would need quite a few. Just the combination of the first 8 notes is 26^7=8,031,810,176, assuming the first note's placement is irrelevant, and assuming up to an octave's jump in value either way. That is discounting rythmic variations, which would add quite a few extra combos.
The outcome space for a melody is astoundingly large.
You know that is my experience as well. Somehow, being a linux user and happily married seems correlated. I wonder why?
Some are immoral, some think there is a difference (not I) and some are just different people (like me). I am equally exasperated about both cases of theft, but I like most people, feel more for the little guy than the big one. The latter is probably because the big ones can answer for themselves.
So to answer you question: When the good outweighs the bad. Trivial example: If a life could be saved by illegally copying something and not by other reasonable means, that would be OK.
I don't doubt that the offer was made with the best intentions. However, why not use bugzilla's vote mechanism? Gnome doesn't use them, it seems, but KDE has Most wanted bugs. I don't know why you think bugzilla's voting system is broken, so I won't comment on that.
When I said the result are skewed I meant that the population is smaller, and different, from the Gnome user population at large. This is true for the bugzilla votes, and this would be true for a website poll. This might be why the Gnome people have disabled votes, though I don't know.
It is, in any case, a common misconception that I take offense at. Certainly, any support requested by someone expressing that view would go to the very bottom of my todo list. Developers are not, as a rule, selfless bastards. But usually our priorities differs from someone else, and thus the moaning and bitching (like the parenthesized statement) ensues.
The Gnome people have made an excellent beginner's desktop. They should be applauded. Why not encourage rather than complain? Honey works better than vinegar, usually.
That parenthesized statement does not follow, despite the ie. Case in point: When I'm implementing something, I often pick it from an often requested fix/feature in bugzilla. When I'm in maintainer mode, this is the way I usually do it.
Besides, the offer she did is nearly worthless. Most bugzillas already have voting system, and her results would be as skewed as the results of these. If you want to do more, you need to ask the users that never votes for anything.
Irrelevant. You need to have people talk in their mobile handset for hours before you would see any radiation hazard in that power range. And that has not been common for more than a few (