But, see, the internet *is* a realm where information is free and available. As has been pointed out, censorship doesn't solve anything. If you block one website, the pornographers will get a new one. If they block IPs, the pictures will be hosted elsewhere, with maybe a few hours of downtime. Their filter list will get huge and unwieldly while not actually stopping anyone.
This is a social problem that needs a social solution, not a technical one.
Why not just install everything in/usr/bin?
Anything I compile myself goes in/usr/local. This means that when I upgrade my system from scratch, I can easily copy all of those installed things to the new system without having to go through/usr/bin by hand. Even easier if you put/usr/local on its own partition.
Believe it or not, most things in unix are they way they are for a reason. That reason may not be immediately obvious to you, but it still exists.
I know it was a joke, but apple's GUI is rendered using the video card's processing power, not your CPU's. So such fancy effects are using cycles that would otherwise be idle, giving no performance hit at all, and making it look fricking cool at the same time.
Opera7 has most if not all of those tab-related features, even going so far as to have a list of all recently closed tabs/windows accessible via the 'Window' menu.
Bad programmers will write bad code no matter what language they use. I have seen incredibly crappy code in *every* language I've ever used. I have tried to write elegant and readable code in every one of those as well; it is easier in some than others.
That said, it is much easier to justify to management the 5 minutes you spent writing a perl script to solve the problem at hand than it is to justify 5 hours building a clean extensible framework. I would have to write 59 other 5 minute perl scripts before it is more time-efficient to write that 5h framework. The workplace cares more about getting the job done, which is something most comp scis forget.
different speed limit. The existing limit applies to time between submitting different comments; my patch says that you have to wait 10(or whatever) seconds between hitting "reply to this" and hitting "submit". Same as slashdot has when you get the "slow down there cowboy!" message.
Geeklog is great, but it is seriously lacking protection against comment spam. I've made a patch to require a delay before submitting a comment. I would love to have some other protections as well, but haven't needed to code up blacklists or anything yet. One neat suggestion was to disallow anonymous comments that had more than 2 links in them.
Canada is a different country, populated by a very different demographic (mostly due to immigration). Canadians try to be Canadian, but that's tough to do with US culture being thrown at us constantly. Most effort to keep our own culture becomes anti-american just because that's the biggest threat due to sheer volume. Geographic proximity is no reason to say that "we are all Americans".
As for ties to Europe, it's worth remembering that the US fought a bloody revolution to become an independent country, while Canada did it peacefully.
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That would just get thrown out due to so much prior art. You should patent the process of throwing out a patent based on prior art first. Then their hands would really be tied.
Have you used KDE recently, specifically the 3.2 release? It doesn't feel fragile or flaky at all to me.
Also, I think that going back to the way things were 10 or 20 years ago certainly counts as backwards, given that the rest of the industry is going forward and slowly improving the user experience. The best way to improve the UI is to not force the preferences of the developer on the user, which is what gnome has done so very wrong in 2.6. Choice is good, don't make your users choose a different product because yours thinks it's smarter than them.
Only problem is that as you approach the speed of light, MS SpaceShip 2010 bloats up until it reaches infinite mass and is completely unmanoeuverable and unusable. so very much like Windows.
It doesn't matter if MS stomps on Mono when Longhorn is finally released; until then, Mono will continue to be one more reason why businesses can and should switch to Linux. There could be a lot of converts in the next 2+ years because of the compatability.
But if latex was there before and they only now removed it, how did you get children in the first place?
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Security through obscurity doesn't work, and that applies equally well to a search algorithm. Because it's open, new innovations will come faster along with new ways to thwart abusers.
Don't underestimate the huge pool of talented amateurs just because the 'experts' all work for the other guys. You don't need to have a title and a six figure paycheque to come up with the next big thing.
Uh, MSN has *repeatedly* changed their HTML to not work with anything other than IE. They were purposely serving up broken stylesheets to Opera, with the excuse that they thought opera needed it.
When I first saw the trailer for Day After Tomorrow, every single person in the movie theater laughed. the 'frozen' New York looked no worse than your average Canadian winter.
Firstly, the 2.6 kernel allows pre-emptive scheduling. Supposedly it was introduced because Linus got tired of his mp3s skipping while he compiled things.
Second, Linux doesn't need a defrag utility. Linux filesystems (Ext2 and Ext3) allocate files properly, using clustering and inodes. The need to defrag comes from the bad design of FAT, which works great on a 8088 processor with tiny files on a 1Meg drive, but is terribly inefficient on anything past a 386.
Of course, there does exist a 'defrag' utility for linux. It just won't gain you much at all.
The "standard way" on linux is to write code that cooperates with everyone else's. You are not in charge of the KDE menu, KDE is. (or, more accurately, the *user* is, but KDE does most of the work) Your program needs to provide certain files in certain places such that the other packages(like debian's 'menu' program) can do what they are designed to do. You do not need to write their functionality into your own app.
What, exactly, does his whole digital design analysis have to do with the rest of his report? After he spent all that time setting up the comparison, he dropped the analogy completely.
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But, see, the internet *is* a realm where information is free and available. As has been pointed out, censorship doesn't solve anything. If you block one website, the pornographers will get a new one. If they block IPs, the pictures will be hosted elsewhere, with maybe a few hours of downtime. Their filter list will get huge and unwieldly while not actually stopping anyone.
This is a social problem that needs a social solution, not a technical one.
Anything I compile myself goes in
Believe it or not, most things in unix are they way they are for a reason. That reason may not be immediately obvious to you, but it still exists.
I know it was a joke, but apple's GUI is rendered using the video card's processing power, not your CPU's. So such fancy effects are using cycles that would otherwise be idle, giving no performance hit at all, and making it look fricking cool at the same time.
Opera7 has most if not all of those tab-related features, even going so far as to have a list of all recently closed tabs/windows accessible via the 'Window' menu.
Bad programmers will write bad code no matter what language they use. I have seen incredibly crappy code in *every* language I've ever used. I have tried to write elegant and readable code in every one of those as well; it is easier in some than others.
That said, it is much easier to justify to management the 5 minutes you spent writing a perl script to solve the problem at hand than it is to justify 5 hours building a clean extensible framework. I would have to write 59 other 5 minute perl scripts before it is more time-efficient to write that 5h framework. The workplace cares more about getting the job done, which is something most comp scis forget.
Does it sound to anyone else that this guy is doing his best to sabotage MS in Asia, a la Eastern Standard Tribe?
different speed limit. The existing limit applies to time between submitting different comments; my patch says that you have to wait 10(or whatever) seconds between hitting "reply to this" and hitting "submit". Same as slashdot has when you get the "slow down there cowboy!" message.
Geeklog is great, but it is seriously lacking protection against comment spam. I've made a patch to require a delay before submitting a comment. I would love to have some other protections as well, but haven't needed to code up blacklists or anything yet. One neat suggestion was to disallow anonymous comments that had more than 2 links in them.
Canada is a different country, populated by a very different demographic (mostly due to immigration). Canadians try to be Canadian, but that's tough to do with US culture being thrown at us constantly. Most effort to keep our own culture becomes anti-american just because that's the biggest threat due to sheer volume. Geographic proximity is no reason to say that "we are all Americans".
As for ties to Europe, it's worth remembering that the US fought a bloody revolution to become an independent country, while Canada did it peacefully.
That would just get thrown out due to so much prior art. You should patent the process of throwing out a patent based on prior art first. Then their hands would really be tied.
Your windows are dirty. Wash them and they will be transparent.
Have you used KDE recently, specifically the 3.2 release? It doesn't feel fragile or flaky at all to me.
Also, I think that going back to the way things were 10 or 20 years ago certainly counts as backwards, given that the rest of the industry is going forward and slowly improving the user experience. The best way to improve the UI is to not force the preferences of the developer on the user, which is what gnome has done so very wrong in 2.6. Choice is good, don't make your users choose a different product because yours thinks it's smarter than them.
What you just described is basically rsync done badly. I think squid was working on incorporating it.
Only problem is that as you approach the speed of light, MS SpaceShip 2010 bloats up until it reaches infinite mass and is completely unmanoeuverable and unusable. so very much like Windows.
It doesn't matter if MS stomps on Mono when Longhorn is finally released; until then, Mono will continue to be one more reason why businesses can and should switch to Linux. There could be a lot of converts in the next 2+ years because of the compatability.
But if latex was there before and they only now removed it, how did you get children in the first place?
Security through obscurity doesn't work, and that applies equally well to a search algorithm. Because it's open, new innovations will come faster along with new ways to thwart abusers.
Don't underestimate the huge pool of talented amateurs just because the 'experts' all work for the other guys. You don't need to have a title and a six figure paycheque to come up with the next big thing.
CNET coverage of one incident.
When I first saw the trailer for Day After Tomorrow, every single person in the movie theater laughed. the 'frozen' New York looked no worse than your average Canadian winter.
Soon, we'll be seeing stories in the media bout how p2p is hurting downloaded album sales!
Does that mean I as a Canadian am a figment of someone's imagination? Sweet! Time to download more mp3s, since they can't sue a nonexistent person!
Firstly, the 2.6 kernel allows pre-emptive scheduling. Supposedly it was introduced because Linus got tired of his mp3s skipping while he compiled things.
Second, Linux doesn't need a defrag utility. Linux filesystems (Ext2 and Ext3) allocate files properly, using clustering and inodes. The need to defrag comes from the bad design of FAT, which works great on a 8088 processor with tiny files on a 1Meg drive, but is terribly inefficient on anything past a 386.
Of course, there does exist a 'defrag' utility for linux. It just won't gain you much at all.
The "standard way" on linux is to write code that cooperates with everyone else's. You are not in charge of the KDE menu, KDE is. (or, more accurately, the *user* is, but KDE does most of the work) Your program needs to provide certain files in certain places such that the other packages(like debian's 'menu' program) can do what they are designed to do. You do not need to write their functionality into your own app.
What, exactly, does his whole digital design analysis have to do with the rest of his report? After he spent all that time setting up the comparison, he dropped the analogy completely.