"Please elaborate with what aeras and tasks that Linux is so good at that Solaris can't touch?"
I've tried to play with Solaris at home twice, just to see what it's about. What it's about, for me, is an OS that doesn't support the hardware I have available for playing. And with no personal experience on it, and no way for me to form an opinion over time in an informal, non-critical setting like my own home, I have no inclination to suggest we look at Solaris rather than continue using linux on our cluster machines at work.
Yes, it's made for server hardware - like the clusters we have - not the laptop I have at home running as a small server (hey, it's silent, draws little power, keyboard and screen folds away when not in use, and comes with UPS built right in). But nobody's going to want to allocate a server and spend work time just to test a different OS when the current OS is doing a decent job already.
You do realize, I hope, that these aren't museum ships, but actual wrecks still lying on the seabed. And not only easy to get to either, but far offshore, or in deep water. Very few people can actually visit them for real, what with the need for diving certification and equipment.
And if for some reason diving interest, ability and funding explodes over the next few years, having hordes of amateur divers swarming around the sites, picking up pieces as souverniers and so on would not be doing anything good for the sites.
Also, Sweden is considering a much simpler, easier visa system for foreign workers (might be enacted into law this year): If you get a job in Sweden paying the prevailing wage, you get a two-year working visa. If you still have a job when it expires it is extended for two years. If you have employment when that visa expires you get a permanent visa.
This sounds perfectly reasonable. Anybody with an interest can still easily find all needed information, while preventing a kind of panopticon of every single aspect of people's lives and pasts to be laid out like a frog on a dissecting table.
Privacy is not binary; it is a sliding scale. This seems to hit a pretty good balance.
You don't need to remember. The Ubuntu names are not the official designation. The version number is. The current version is 8.04, easily distinguishable from earlier versions by virte of being a larger number than previous ones. Neither are the Firefox names official; again the important designation is the version number with which you can easily (and perhaps with the help of an adult) figure out which version is the newest.
Either that, or a $20 charge for "new features"...
Come now, give Apple some credit. This isn't just some run-of-the-mill bug, this is a serious security issue that could cause their customers some serious harm if not fixed.
I'd expect $100 at least; or perhaps they'll introduce the innovative "iLease", with a "lease to own" path for the fixed bug where it's patched permanently on your server after only three years of monthly bug fix rental.
For my part (and only for my part. of course) my rationale for GPL is simple: I give you permission to use what I've made. You effectively pay for that right by giving identical permissions to use your related code back to me, and by extension to anybody else. It is a quid pro quo.
I don't dislike the BSD license at all. Anybody want to use it is fine by me. But there is no "I used the BSD license so you must too" requirement - the defining part of the BSD licence compared to GPL is that there is no such requirement. So don't get mad if your BSD code ends up as part of a GPL'ed project. It's what you chose to allow after all.
A decent, if somewhat rambling description of the whole problem is available here. Skip the history and go the "Han unification section" if you want.
Perhaps the most commonly given example (not the most problematic, but involving a common character) is "hone" (bone), which has been conflated with the Chinese character of the same meaning. Problem is, kanji and hanzi have drifted apart in this case (and in plenty others), so the correct way to write it actually differs between the languages, and thus two glyphs are called for. It is much the same as the Swedish "ö" and the Danish "ø" have the same sound and the same origin, but are now considered separate glyphs. More serious is that various kanji forms used in given names are absent or changed; this tends to not go down well with people bearing such names.
Japanese mostly do not use Unicode at all. To support Japanese users you need to be able to handle Shift-JS and ISO-2022-JP as well, both reading and writing.
Java and Python only solved that problem in the sense that "we support only Unicode". Which kind of sucks for Japanese, since Unicode is actually somewhat broken for the language (not all needed characters are actually defined). And even if you use Unicode, dealing with Japanese does mean dealing with and generating both ISO-2022 and Shift-JS documents on a regular basis.
That's a bit weird. AFAIK, Ruby 1.9 takes the encoding you use system-wide as the default - if the "2009" above is interpreted as 8-bit ascii, it means that's the encoding for the environment you start ruby in.
Or, maybe, you know, fix their security holes. It's Apple. By definition anything they make is perfect in any conceivable way. If Safari allows forced downloads of thousands of executables, then it is because all web clients really should, and Apple is the only company with the vision, the foresight, and the polo sweaters to implement it. Just ask any Apple fanboy in your neighbourhood; he'll tell you.
He's completely on point. The parent poster asked if we should have any expectations of privacy while in public. He shows that yes, we do have some expectations on privacy; the discussion is thus about what those expectations should be. You can't, for instance, take a picture of somebody, then use it for commercial purposes without their explicit permission (look up "release form"), and Google is probably dangerously close to be over that line already.
A newspaper and a television station has very free rein publishing what they want - as long as they can argue it's news. A newspaper can for instance not just take a shot of someone on the street, then use that shot for an advertisement (or sell it to an ad agency) - their relative freedom of using other persons likeness is limited to actual news.
And once we're there, it's only a stone's throw to cloning complete organisms for organ harvesting for transplants - and vat-grown beef, pork, lamb and even long-pig. Great!
Growing "spare bodies" for its organs would help a lot of people, especially if you can alter the genetic makeup a bit to remove deleterious mutations - sicle-cell anemics could get their own bone marrow, but corrected, for instance. Old people with filing hearts could get their own heart, but young; you'd get your own kidneys, or liver - or hand, if you're accident prone.
Vat-grown meat, if it can be made cheap and structurally sound, should be another boon. No longer having to go through the inefficient, disease-prone roundabout way of raising and killing an animal, and with much better control over the whole production process.
On one hand, I'm of course happy I can stay with Flickr. On the other, it would have been a great deal of fun seeing Microsoft get bogged down and distracted for a good few years as it struggled to digest Yahoo (and, likely, killing any value of that company in the process).
Inkscape's UI is a lot better than GIMP's. Everyone admits that. And it's much improved in 0.46 anyway. It's decent but not great. At least it is possible to break out dialogs and tools into their own windows instead of being stuck in the drawing window. Screen estate is limited; the last thing I want is to have the drawing surface compete for space with tool dialogs.
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BTW, does Gnome now allows switching the spelling language of an application during the use of it? I don't think spellchecking functionality is a desktop-wide feature by itself; I think it will depend on the application how exactly it is implemented. I do know that Gedit, the standard editor, does allow you to set the language on a per-document basis at runtime. No idea on Gaim.
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"A question: Is there a functional IDE for Mono, for us who don't want gnome or even gnome libs on our System?"
Um, what? You'll get gnome cooties?
Monodevelop is a good IDE, and I don't think having GTK and related libs installed is going to steal your masculinity or anything.
...considering his uid is HALF that of yours...
He's getting senile.
"Please elaborate with what aeras and tasks that Linux is so good at that Solaris
can't touch?"
I've tried to play with Solaris at home twice, just to see what it's about. What it's about, for me, is an OS that doesn't support the hardware I have available for playing. And with no personal experience on it, and no way for me to form an opinion over time in an informal, non-critical setting like my own home, I have no inclination to suggest we look at Solaris rather than continue using linux on our cluster machines at work.
Yes, it's made for server hardware - like the clusters we have - not the laptop I have at home running as a small server (hey, it's silent, draws little power, keyboard and screen folds away when not in use, and comes with UPS built right in). But nobody's going to want to allocate a server and spend work time just to test a different OS when the current OS is doing a decent job already.
You do realize, I hope, that these aren't museum ships, but actual wrecks still lying on the seabed. And not only easy to get to either, but far offshore, or in deep water. Very few people can actually visit them for real, what with the need for diving certification and equipment.
And if for some reason diving interest, ability and funding explodes over the next few years, having hordes of amateur divers swarming around the sites, picking up pieces as souverniers and so on would not be doing anything good for the sites.
What, he's not landing by running very, very fast?
Disappointed I am, sir; disappointed.
Also, Sweden is considering a much simpler, easier visa system for foreign workers (might be enacted into law this year): If you get a job in Sweden paying the prevailing wage, you get a two-year working visa. If you still have a job when it expires it is extended for two years. If you have employment when that visa expires you get a permanent visa.
This sounds perfectly reasonable. Anybody with an interest can still easily find all needed information, while preventing a kind of panopticon of every single aspect of people's lives and pasts to be laid out like a frog on a dissecting table.
Privacy is not binary; it is a sliding scale. This seems to hit a pretty good balance.
You don't need to remember. The Ubuntu names are not the official designation. The version number is. The current version is 8.04, easily distinguishable from earlier versions by virte of being a larger number than previous ones. Neither are the Firefox names official; again the important designation is the version number with which you can easily (and perhaps with the help of an adult) figure out which version is the newest.
Isn't it great, huh?
Either that, or a $20 charge for "new features"...
Come now, give Apple some credit. This isn't just some run-of-the-mill bug, this is a serious security issue that could cause their customers some serious harm if not fixed.
I'd expect $100 at least; or perhaps they'll introduce the innovative "iLease", with a "lease to own" path for the fixed bug where it's patched permanently on your server after only three years of monthly bug fix rental.
"Why are people that require 'driving enhancements' allowed to drive in the first place?"
Enhancements like eyeglasses? Or automatic gearboxes? Or hand-actuated accellerator? Seems we allow devices to correct for impairments already.
For my part (and only for my part. of course) my rationale for GPL is simple: I give you permission to use what I've made. You effectively pay for that right by giving identical permissions to use your related code back to me, and by extension to anybody else. It is a quid pro quo.
I don't dislike the BSD license at all. Anybody want to use it is fine by me. But there is no "I used the BSD license so you must too" requirement - the defining part of the BSD licence compared to GPL is that there is no such requirement. So don't get mad if your BSD code ends up as part of a GPL'ed project. It's what you chose to allow after all.
"There's nothing serial about killing your wife because she cheated on you with your best friend."
He might remarry when he gets out.
"Well, if the boat captain finds himself at 40 to 100 meters depth, he has other things to worry about."
Snakes on a Submarine! Extended, Elongated Edition! Immensely Increased Inadvertent Innuendo! Alliterations Aplenty!! With a Thousand Elephants!!!
A decent, if somewhat rambling description of the whole problem is available here. Skip the history and go the "Han unification section" if you want.
Perhaps the most commonly given example (not the most problematic, but involving a common character) is "hone" (bone), which has been conflated with the Chinese character of the same meaning. Problem is, kanji and hanzi have drifted apart in this case (and in plenty others), so the correct way to write it actually differs between the languages, and thus two glyphs are called for. It is much the same as the Swedish "ö" and the Danish "ø" have the same sound and the same origin, but are now considered separate glyphs. More serious is that various kanji forms used in given names are absent or changed; this tends to not go down well with people bearing such names.
Japanese mostly do not use Unicode at all. To support Japanese users you need to be able to handle Shift-JS and ISO-2022-JP as well, both reading and writing.
Ruby 1.9 supports unicode just fine. In addition, it supports the needed Japanese encodings, which Java and Python does not do well.
Java and Python only solved that problem in the sense that "we support only Unicode". Which kind of sucks for Japanese, since Unicode is actually somewhat broken for the language (not all needed characters are actually defined). And even if you use Unicode, dealing with Japanese does mean dealing with and generating both ISO-2022 and Shift-JS documents on a regular basis.
That's a bit weird. AFAIK, Ruby 1.9 takes the encoding you use system-wide as the default - if the "2009" above is interpreted as 8-bit ascii, it means that's the encoding for the environment you start ruby in.
He's completely on point. The parent poster asked if we should have any expectations of privacy while in public. He shows that yes, we do have some expectations on privacy; the discussion is thus about what those expectations should be. You can't, for instance, take a picture of somebody, then use it for commercial purposes without their explicit permission (look up "release form"), and Google is probably dangerously close to be over that line already.
A newspaper and a television station has very free rein publishing what they want - as long as they can argue it's news. A newspaper can for instance not just take a shot of someone on the street, then use that shot for an advertisement (or sell it to an ad agency) - their relative freedom of using other persons likeness is limited to actual news.
Growing "spare bodies" for its organs would help a lot of people, especially if you can alter the genetic makeup a bit to remove deleterious mutations - sicle-cell anemics could get their own bone marrow, but corrected, for instance. Old people with filing hearts could get their own heart, but young; you'd get your own kidneys, or liver - or hand, if you're accident prone.
Vat-grown meat, if it can be made cheap and structurally sound, should be another boon. No longer having to go through the inefficient, disease-prone roundabout way of raising and killing an animal, and with much better control over the whole production process.
Looking forward to this.
Thomson is an animatronic Jack Chick tract.
On one hand, I'm of course happy I can stay with Flickr. On the other, it would have been a great deal of fun seeing Microsoft get bogged down and distracted for a good few years as it struggled to digest Yahoo (and, likely, killing any value of that company in the process).