Wow, what a troll. Of *course* the kernel is device dependent. It's a fricking kernel. Of *course* a new major version runs differently; they refitted huge parts of the kernel for the 2.6 version, including fixing some gaping security holes. If you don't want change, don't upgrade.
Mod parent up! Back in the early days of computers, programmer time was cheaper than CPU time, and it made sense to spend more time optimising code and writing at a low level. These days, there *are* cycles to spare, and there's *no* reason to write most things in assembler or C. You can still write efficient code in a high level language, but odds are the compiler will do a better job of optimising than you will.
Sorry, but campaigns claiming that windows is cheaper than linux, based on MS-sponsored biased reports, are indeed FUD. FUD is when you conveniently ignore reality and depend on gullibility and marketing instead. TFA talks about how linux should do advocacy the Right Way, which avoid fanboy-dom and reverse FUD.
Really, we could write articles about how MS should sell its software as a superiour product, but they seem to feel the need to bash the competition instead ("only communists use open source!").
Of course it's ethical to attract employees with better perks. This is capitalism; an employee is free to pursue the highest 'bid' for their talents, provided they're not breaking any existing contracts. Big companies like MS have anti-competitive clauses in their contracts to prevent defections; they also offer good benefits packages on their own. If google managed to trump that, then good on them!
My KDE desktop looks like OSX; they emulate windows by default because that's what people are used ot. You won't get people to switch if you are using something "more original". The trick is that you can tweak the desktop until it looks nothing like windows.
Actually, most of the time those are part of a SEO effort, who happen to be only slightly less evil than your average nigerian scammer. They usually have your site linked in a big list on a particular page, and are hoping that you'll link back to improve their search engine rank. It's jsut a different kind of spam.
Just because the underlying system *can* support this doesn't mean that every window manager is going to have these effects. If you don't want animated everything, continue using blackbox or ratpoison. See, the system isn't going to be slowed down by having a better architecture and more potential. And hey, maybe out of all the eye candy that people try (oh yes, they will, and most will be stupid. but you don't have to use them), the Next Big UI Improvement will be found, and would only be possible with these new abilities at the X layer.
You forgot to mention how the summary draws a completely bunk conclusion just for the sake of being controversial. Being taxed by-the-mile does not punish people using fuel efficient cars. All it does it add the same tax to everyone who is actually using the roads. To be fair, TFA muddied everything by implying that this would be a disincentive to buy fuel efficient cars, when in fact they meant NEW cars with this system installed. If you have a car that uses less gas and thus you pay less gasoline taxes, you're still better off than driving a gas guzzler *and* getting taxed by the mile.
There's also exim. I'm amazed that anyone would bring up sendmail considering the shitheap that is Exchange. Which, incidentally, there are no alternatives for. And microsoft is somehow trying to pass that off as a feature, now. "but linux has so many *choices*! It can't be ready for the enterprise!"
Why yes, I did know that it was plaintext, which is why I don't do that. I use TLS (or SSL) encrypted IMAP for my email. Also why I don't use ssh1. Go back to your l33t packet sniffer and quit wasting my time.
It's not really wireless charging. A more accurate name would be contact-less charging, as there are no electrical contacts required.
(if only the average joe knew what inductance was...)
It's been said many, many times before. Good laws protect the rights of individuals. Good moral codes protect the rights of individuals. Because they serve the same end goal, they often overlap. That does not mean they are equivalent, nor that either one is "right" or "more moral" than the other.
Disk encryption is not the job of an email program. This is for secure communication, not secure storage, and it is right to leave disk encryption to disk encryptors.
"Also please stop using XML to represent arbitrary data. It's a markup language."
I find XML quite good at representing arbitrary data, and at the same time quite bad as a markup language. It's terrible at being a programming language though; it has all the readability of assembler and all the power of BASIC. My preferred dataflow is (input)->(a real language)->(XML/XSLT)->((HTML + CSS)|LaTeX). Each part has its strengths, and you'll have real issues if you try to get any one of these hammers to do everything.
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No, you're thinking of mecha-godzilla.
Wow, what a troll. Of *course* the kernel is device dependent. It's a fricking kernel. Of *course* a new major version runs differently; they refitted huge parts of the kernel for the 2.6 version, including fixing some gaping security holes. If you don't want change, don't upgrade.
Mod parent up! Back in the early days of computers, programmer time was cheaper than CPU time, and it made sense to spend more time optimising code and writing at a low level. These days, there *are* cycles to spare, and there's *no* reason to write most things in assembler or C. You can still write efficient code in a high level language, but odds are the compiler will do a better job of optimising than you will.
Sorry, but campaigns claiming that windows is cheaper than linux, based on MS-sponsored biased reports, are indeed FUD. FUD is when you conveniently ignore reality and depend on gullibility and marketing instead. TFA talks about how linux should do advocacy the Right Way, which avoid fanboy-dom and reverse FUD.
Really, we could write articles about how MS should sell its software as a superiour product, but they seem to feel the need to bash the competition instead ("only communists use open source!").
Of course it's ethical to attract employees with better perks. This is capitalism; an employee is free to pursue the highest 'bid' for their talents, provided they're not breaking any existing contracts. Big companies like MS have anti-competitive clauses in their contracts to prevent defections; they also offer good benefits packages on their own. If google managed to trump that, then good on them!
My KDE desktop looks like OSX; they emulate windows by default because that's what people are used ot. You won't get people to switch if you are using something "more original". The trick is that you can tweak the desktop until it looks nothing like windows.
Yes, 4.0 would be the next major release. 3.4 would be a minor release. It just happens to have a lot of cool new features.
Actually, most of the time those are part of a SEO effort, who happen to be only slightly less evil than your average nigerian scammer. They usually have your site linked in a big list on a particular page, and are hoping that you'll link back to improve their search engine rank. It's jsut a different kind of spam.
If you like how IE does it, then keep using IE. Firefox is popular because it doesn't take the kitchen-sink approach, like say, the original mozilla.
Just because the underlying system *can* support this doesn't mean that every window manager is going to have these effects. If you don't want animated everything, continue using blackbox or ratpoison. See, the system isn't going to be slowed down by having a better architecture and more potential. And hey, maybe out of all the eye candy that people try (oh yes, they will, and most will be stupid. but you don't have to use them), the Next Big UI Improvement will be found, and would only be possible with these new abilities at the X layer.
You forgot to mention how the summary draws a completely bunk conclusion just for the sake of being controversial. Being taxed by-the-mile does not punish people using fuel efficient cars. All it does it add the same tax to everyone who is actually using the roads. To be fair, TFA muddied everything by implying that this would be a disincentive to buy fuel efficient cars, when in fact they meant NEW cars with this system installed. If you have a car that uses less gas and thus you pay less gasoline taxes, you're still better off than driving a gas guzzler *and* getting taxed by the mile.
I've got an auto-complete plugin in vim (just hit tab!).
There's also exim. I'm amazed that anyone would bring up sendmail considering the shitheap that is Exchange. Which, incidentally, there are no alternatives for. And microsoft is somehow trying to pass that off as a feature, now. "but linux has so many *choices*! It can't be ready for the enterprise!"
Massively parallel processing, of course!
I've been saying it for years; how come we can send a man to the moon but we can't fix bite-lover's toaster?
Why yes, I did know that it was plaintext, which is why I don't do that. I use TLS (or SSL) encrypted IMAP for my email. Also why I don't use ssh1. Go back to your l33t packet sniffer and quit wasting my time.
I'm not entirely sure what the point would be of discussing moral concerns without concern for the morality of it.
...fighting mummies in texas.
It's not really wireless charging. A more accurate name would be contact-less charging, as there are no electrical contacts required. (if only the average joe knew what inductance was...)
It's been said many, many times before. Good laws protect the rights of individuals. Good moral codes protect the rights of individuals. Because they serve the same end goal, they often overlap. That does not mean they are equivalent, nor that either one is "right" or "more moral" than the other.
Disk encryption is not the job of an email program. This is for secure communication, not secure storage, and it is right to leave disk encryption to disk encryptors.
"We don't see many stock pump-and-dump spams any more"
What internet are you using? I've gotten more spam about h0t st0cks in the past week than in the previous 6 months.
The kids are spelling it "pr0n" these days.
From that subject, I totally though you were going to make a spam joke.
"Also please stop using XML to represent arbitrary data. It's a markup language."
I find XML quite good at representing arbitrary data, and at the same time quite bad as a markup language. It's terrible at being a programming language though; it has all the readability of assembler and all the power of BASIC. My preferred dataflow is (input)->(a real language)->(XML/XSLT)->((HTML + CSS)|LaTeX). Each part has its strengths, and you'll have real issues if you try to get any one of these hammers to do everything.