What about realizing that it's impossible to define security for the vast diversity of setups we all use and forget about compliance but instead draft a list of bad stuff that shouldn't happen (leaking customer info for instance) and make a law that says that companies have to do whatever they have to to avoid the things on that list. Incident would be interpreted as negligence and heavily fined.
Websites that (successfully) make noise at me are one of my pet hates.
That's why I think it's awesome that HTML5 includes sound. You can't block the sound from a plugin that's executable code that does whatever it wants, however browser makers (and extension writers) can put settings options to let you opt-out for the sounds. Or prevent things from playing until you switch to the tab that wants to play them.
The CLI is there to stay because we like it. You don't have to use it but it is much more convenient than GUIs for many tasks. For instance, what is more convenient?:
1: Open Gimp (or Photoshop), File -> Open -> foo.tiff -> File -> save as -> foo.png 2: Open a Terminal -> "convert foo.tiff foo.png"
Sure we *could* do without the CLI, but it makes your life so much easier when you use it.
Beside, Microsoft did work on its own CLI, they called it Powershell and you can download it for XP or Vista. Not as elegant as the ones we have but at least, they aliased all the unix commands that are equivalent to their own.
*maybe* it's worth giving a try again.. I kept up with Word Perfect post 5.1 since I truly loved it (and still truly miss reveal codes)
That feature would not be possible in Word. Wordperfect documents are a stream of text and tags (just like html) which makes reveal code trivial, Word has objects inside objects inside other objects until you reach turtles.
There's also "Make it fit" that others never managed to copy.
I'm not sure which mistakes you speak (I used word back then) and only switched to WordPerfect at version 13. Then I switched to Linux and Open Office but I miss Wordperfect. In any case, the reason why I like WordPerfect is because I don't fight against it like I do in the others. And it's not because I'm more used to it, I used the others for a larger amount of time.
The ~referendum that Zelaya was planning might well have been unconstitutionnal, but he didn't get to do it. Hence he did not break the constitution. Therefore the coup cannot begin to be justified by this stupid talking point.
Yes he did. If you read their constitution, you'll see that there's a section that cannot be changed or amended about the president serving only one term (too many dictator presidents clinging to power) and that it's even illegal for a government official to talk about changing it. According to the constitution, that person would lose his position and be barred from the government altogether for a period of 10 years.
Therefore, he did break the constitution and the moment he did so, wasn't president anymore.
> Right off the wheel, I would say that if Microsoft is so terrible, why is no one in the FOSS movement able to come up with an IDE consistently as good as Visual Studio?
We tend not to like IDEs very much.
> Why is it that the state of the art in FOSS Office applications still has less features than Office 2000?
Because it doesn't?
> If Microsoft is such a shoddy company, where's the VB for Linux?
> If I look around Linux, the only big thing that's innovative is KDE 4.
You didn't look very hard didn't you? The most innovative thing I saw recently is how perl 6 reinvented regexes, I can't wait for it to spread to other languages.
Kindle doesn't work outside the US, period. We Canadians don't get it either(though I suspect that has something to do with our world-renowned awful telcos and monopolistic nationally propped up book broker Indigo more then anything else.)
This is not an excuse. They just have to deliver it via wifi and for those who can't use that, make a little sync app. If they are not in Canada, it's because they don't want to.
I already knew Picasa in Linux was just the Windows version in the wrapper, but Google Earth was always expressed as being a native Linux build.
It's shameful given that it's written with Qt which makes writing cross-platform apps much easier. I have no idea what they rely on that's Windows only.
Chromium entered alpha stage which is Google speak for actual beta (as beta is Google speak for release). It's quite stable, speedy and a great browser if you can live without flash and with ads. You should give it a try.
I wasn't criticizing people working on Wine or for CodeWeavers for the lack of support for Photoshop. The CW policy is to work on stuff people paid for first and get other programs working as a side effect. It makes plenty of sense and this is what enables them to continue their work.
I blame Adobe. The costs of paying to get that compatibility given the new market it would open to them is peanuts.
It exists. It's called libwine. It's among others how Picasa and Google Earth work on Linux.
Also, if Wine isn't very compatible with your app, you can pay CodeWeaver to make it compatible, they are very cheap. Given this, it's surprising that apps like for instance Photoshop aren't available for Linux already (Photoshop CS2 do work on Wine but only because Google paid CodeWeavers to make it compatible).
Why is it that so many people feel the need to give people some kneejerk economics lesson. Nothing in the original post indicates the person doesn't understand basic economics.
The post I answered to was written by the OP and it indicates he does not in fact understand basic economics. He states he has to sell it at $50 because he can't sell as many as romance novels. This does not make any sense, the price you set your book as to be the one that maximizes the profit margin * books sold equation. The fact that the book took lots of resources to create or targets a niche is irrelevant to this equation.
Sure, writing the book was a sunk cost, but that doesn't make it completely unethical for others to be stealing the product of all the hours he put in writing that book.
I didn't consider the ethical implications, I just talked about how things work in reality: if you price is above people's threshold, they will pirate it.
And the prospect of working several hundred or a thousand hours writing a technical book in a subject where you are a highly educated expert, to make the equivalent of McDonalds wages, is probably not going to encourage people to write books.
If the writing of some books is not economically viable then there is not much we can do beside grants. I still believe that meeting pirates half-way by asking them to donate what they consider fair is a good compromise. After all, even if he wishes people to pay the full price, the money he'd get from pirates paying what they want is money he'd not get at all otherwise.
I didn't specifically make an argument for an economic position,
The real cost is in the time it takes to prepare the book. It's not fair to compare the cost of a data compression book with, say, a romance title. The size of the markets is vastly different. I would be happy to sell my data compression book at the price of a romance novel if I could sell as many copies.
The money and time it took to prepate the book is called a sunk cost. The market does not care one bit about sunk costs. Apparently, people will not buy it at the price you asked, they either have a choice of doing away with the information or pirate the book. Maybe you could invite people who do that to give you what they feel is fair? If I only need one or two chapters from your book and send you five bucks, it's five bucks you would never get if you stuck to $41 or nothing.
Oh and you should read this article about setting prices.
Wikipedia is more than reliable enough for homework needs but it makes the information way to easy to reach for the teachers to be comfortable. They don't really care about what you learn or produce, they care about how much you worked for it. Wikipedia means you don't have to jump through as many hoops and they really hate that.
Good luck with that. The last time someone tried that, they slowed Python down by half.
Only because Python uses a refcounting garbage collector. When you get many threads, you need to lock all your data structures because otherwise you might collect them when they are still reachable. This project plans to change the garbage collection strategy first. Once it's done, killing the GIL is easy.
I agree... it just plain scares me that so many large systems don't even bother with such trivial precautions as hashing. It's even more trivial than sql injections. Up until it happened, I would have _never_ guessed myspace & phpbb stored plaintext. It seems borderline incompetent.
MySpace is actually innocent here. The password were found in a phishing attack, people thought they were login to MySpace. The real database was not compromised.
Python makes sense to a degree, but its trademark The Whitespace Thing might prove especially frustrating, as adolescents tend to pay little attention to subtlety, so I could imagine the somewhat-subtlety of indentation could be problematic. Maybe I'm wrong; this is untested.
So... You believe that they can't pay attention to whitespace but can pay attention to matching braces?
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You aren't supposed to read the GPL, only its preamble. The rest of meant for lawyers and is as long as it takes to be bulletproof.
What about realizing that it's impossible to define security for the vast diversity of setups we all use and forget about compliance but instead draft a list of bad stuff that shouldn't happen (leaking customer info for instance) and make a law that says that companies have to do whatever they have to to avoid the things on that list. Incident would be interpreted as negligence and heavily fined.
I think the main issue is that The Simpsons is not considered edgy anymore.
Did you ever think you just watch the video demo Google did or you feel that'd be too similar to RTFA to know what you're talking about?
That's why I think it's awesome that HTML5 includes sound. You can't block the sound from a plugin that's executable code that does whatever it wants, however browser makers (and extension writers) can put settings options to let you opt-out for the sounds. Or prevent things from playing until you switch to the tab that wants to play them.
The CLI is there to stay because we like it. You don't have to use it but it is much more convenient than GUIs for many tasks. For instance, what is more convenient?:
1: Open Gimp (or Photoshop), File -> Open -> foo.tiff -> File -> save as -> foo.png
2: Open a Terminal -> "convert foo.tiff foo.png"
Sure we *could* do without the CLI, but it makes your life so much easier when you use it.
Beside, Microsoft did work on its own CLI, they called it Powershell and you can download it for XP or Vista. Not as elegant as the ones we have but at least, they aliased all the unix commands that are equivalent to their own.
That feature would not be possible in Word. Wordperfect documents are a stream of text and tags (just like html) which makes reveal code trivial, Word has objects inside objects inside other objects until you reach turtles.
There's also "Make it fit" that others never managed to copy.
I'm not sure which mistakes you speak (I used word back then) and only switched to WordPerfect at version 13. Then I switched to Linux and Open Office but I miss Wordperfect. In any case, the reason why I like WordPerfect is because I don't fight against it like I do in the others. And it's not because I'm more used to it, I used the others for a larger amount of time.
Word Perfect is still the best Word Processor and reveal code is still there. It's at version 14 now and supports the open document format.
Maybe they realized their position would mean the people making their compiler own their software?
Unless they have to write "Google Chrome", people will use "The Google".
KDE is not, it's just a desktop environment. Kubuntu would be.
Yes he did. If you read their constitution, you'll see that there's a section that cannot be changed or amended about the president serving only one term (too many dictator presidents clinging to power) and that it's even illegal for a government official to talk about changing it. According to the constitution, that person would lose his position and be barred from the government altogether for a period of 10 years.
Therefore, he did break the constitution and the moment he did so, wasn't president anymore.
> Right off the wheel, I would say that if Microsoft is so terrible, why is no one in the FOSS movement able to come up with an IDE consistently as good as Visual Studio?
We tend not to like IDEs very much.
> Why is it that the state of the art in FOSS Office applications still has less features than Office 2000?
Because it doesn't?
> If Microsoft is such a shoddy company, where's the VB for Linux?
There: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html. Or Python / Ruby with Qt / Gtk, depending what you mean by "VB". Or Mono.
> If I look around Linux, the only big thing that's innovative is KDE 4.
You didn't look very hard didn't you? The most innovative thing I saw recently is how perl 6 reinvented regexes, I can't wait for it to spread to other languages.
This is not an excuse. They just have to deliver it via wifi and for those who can't use that, make a little sync app. If they are not in Canada, it's because they don't want to.
It's shameful given that it's written with Qt which makes writing cross-platform apps much easier. I have no idea what they rely on that's Windows only.
Chromium entered alpha stage which is Google speak for actual beta (as beta is Google speak for release). It's quite stable, speedy and a great browser if you can live without flash and with ads. You should give it a try.
I wasn't criticizing people working on Wine or for CodeWeavers for the lack of support for Photoshop. The CW policy is to work on stuff people paid for first and get other programs working as a side effect. It makes plenty of sense and this is what enables them to continue their work.
I blame Adobe. The costs of paying to get that compatibility given the new market it would open to them is peanuts.
It exists. It's called libwine. It's among others how Picasa and Google Earth work on Linux.
Also, if Wine isn't very compatible with your app, you can pay CodeWeaver to make it compatible, they are very cheap. Given this, it's surprising that apps like for instance Photoshop aren't available for Linux already (Photoshop CS2 do work on Wine but only because Google paid CodeWeavers to make it compatible).
The post I answered to was written by the OP and it indicates he does not in fact understand basic economics. He states he has to sell it at $50 because he can't sell as many as romance novels. This does not make any sense, the price you set your book as to be the one that maximizes the profit margin * books sold equation. The fact that the book took lots of resources to create or targets a niche is irrelevant to this equation.
I didn't consider the ethical implications, I just talked about how things work in reality: if you price is above people's threshold, they will pirate it.
If the writing of some books is not economically viable then there is not much we can do beside grants. I still believe that meeting pirates half-way by asking them to donate what they consider fair is a good compromise. After all, even if he wishes people to pay the full price, the money he'd get from pirates paying what they want is money he'd not get at all otherwise.
Well, I am.
The money and time it took to prepate the book is called a sunk cost. The market does not care one bit about sunk costs. Apparently, people will not buy it at the price you asked, they either have a choice of doing away with the information or pirate the book. Maybe you could invite people who do that to give you what they feel is fair? If I only need one or two chapters from your book and send you five bucks, it's five bucks you would never get if you stuck to $41 or nothing.
Oh and you should read this article about setting prices.
It wouldn't work, teachers hate Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is more than reliable enough for homework needs but it makes the information way to easy to reach for the teachers to be comfortable. They don't really care about what you learn or produce, they care about how much you worked for it. Wikipedia means you don't have to jump through as many hoops and they really hate that.
Because it's probably not the most compatible Windows and might lack some features.
Only because Python uses a refcounting garbage collector. When you get many threads, you need to lock all your data structures because otherwise you might collect them when they are still reachable. This project plans to change the garbage collection strategy first. Once it's done, killing the GIL is easy.
MySpace is actually innocent here. The password were found in a phishing attack, people thought they were login to MySpace. The real database was not compromised.
What about 4.0alpha, 4.1beta and 4.2? Or 4.-2, 4.-1 and 4.0?
So... You believe that they can't pay attention to whitespace but can pay attention to matching braces?