> A packages version is early released to unstable. As its main problems get fixed, it migrates to testing.
unstable means the package set is moving (as in, the contents change) quickly. It does _not_ mean the packages themselves are unstable. That is what experimental is for. Of course, you run a higher risk using unstable than, say, testing. But I run unstable on all my client machines (testing on servers) and I have not had a major bug that made the system unusable in _years_.
I think we need to get over this misstep. I totally agree that they played the version number badly, but they also released plenty of warnings about what 4.0 meant and that it was different than a traditional point-oh release. I read these warnings and knew not to take 4.0 seriously. Why didn't other people?
Because people are people. And while KDE warned, no one else did. This was painfully obvious _before_ KDE 4.0 was released, but back then, it was disregarded. Yes, once KDE 4 is as good and stable as 3.5.10, people will start to get over this.
But that people point out one of the biggest mistakes in FLOSS history (yes, IMO it is _that_ bad) is only natural. And it serves as a warning to others.
Richard
PS: The KDE 2 -> 3 was almost as smooth as silk. I loved KDE 3 pretty much from day two.
Dunno about the US, but in the EU and especially Germany, there are lot of provisions. Not being allowed to sell under your own buying/production price, not being allowed to cross-finance one product with another, not being allowed to tie in some kinds of sales, etc etc etc. As I said IANAL, but this leaves a strange taste at best.
A good year ago there was this _awesome_ tech demo of video & audio that followed you around the house, remotes which worked in 3D, lighting that went off when you left the house etc etc etc...
I have been looking for this stuff for ages, but as I can't seem to remember the name, I have been unable to find it again... Any help?
KDE 4 has limited the usefulness of Konqueror in favour of Dolphin. KDE being open source, this will certainly improve over time, but I am running 4.3.2 and some pills are still hard to swallow. Fwiw, my gf and my work boxes run 3.5.10 and will unfortunately continue to do so for some time.
Has anyone a good link that explains, in some depth, how they do this? You have a ship (or more) and they haul the cable to the surface. OK. But what _exactly_ is involved?
If you were to, $deity beware, read the article, you would know that the CO_2 helps transform Nitrogen-rich molecules into others which the plants can then use.
The fact that you can make up pseudo-science-fields that sound funny does not mean you are right. You still have knowledge about the real fields involved.
Having no experience whatsoever in any of the relevant fields, I can positively state that this will not work because I am a lot smarter than all the people who were involved in this and invested their time, grants and own money.
I am cow, hear me moo; I am/. and lots smarter than you!
I love how "ass" is bleeped out and Nazi is an OK word.
Also, both bleeps and asterisks just emphasize that there is something to "hide", making it's effect stronger as it forces the brain out of normal cruise into attention.
Is this about the incident in the first Iraq war?
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While I agree that the design decisions which lead to this were poorly made, this error was common knowledge.
The Patriot system _must_ be restarted every X days, exactly due to this bug. This is documented and everything.
While the initial error was with the people who created the Patriot system, the soldiers who were assigned to the system were the ones who made sure that a documented bug with a known-good work-around became a loss of life.
Well, I think there are a lot of good drivers, but no perfect ones.
Also, you can not stop back at this particular intersection as you can't see into it, otherwise. The fact that the other one was speeding in a curve, downhill, on ice, did not help, either:)
> This is, of course, different from dozing at the wheel, which is entirely different and very much more dangerous!
Yah. It's more like you don't really think about how to ride a bike while cycling. It's just so familiar, you don't have to think about the basic stuff.
Disregarding the needless and baseless personal attack, let me answer this.
1) How is driving in the middle of the road less secure than sticking to the right-hand side when there is _no other traffic_?
2) Sure they do. I only have to tip my turn signal and it will blink three times. But how is this relevant if there is no one near me who can care about it?
3) How do you arrive at the conclusion that I "think swerving is a suitable reaction to anything"?
I would prefer if you went lighter on the personal attacks and heavier on the actual facts and relevant statements so we can do more than throw bits of conversation at each other.
You will probably have more than one top in your curve. My personal optimum tends to be farther on the "arrives in a reasonable time" and "does not slow down others" side.
Remember: The safest driver is the person who _never_ drives. But we can probably agree that this is not the local optimum most people would choose.
How is the ability to earn money and/or status related to the ability to drive?
The reason you guys suck at driving is that you never learn to do so. Come over to Germany and take a course.. We also have crappy drivers, but ours are a _lot_ better than yours.
PS: A good driver can still collide with things. I stopped at an intersection, had the way of right and someone slid into me from the left, downhill, on ice. I was already in reverse but as he slid into my lane, I had no chance. Does that make me a bad driver?
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> A packages version is early released to unstable. As its main problems get fixed, it migrates to testing.
unstable means the package set is moving (as in, the contents change) quickly. It does _not_ mean the packages themselves are unstable. That is what experimental is for.
Of course, you run a higher risk using unstable than, say, testing. But I run unstable on all my client machines (testing on servers) and I have not had a major bug that made the system unusable in _years_.
I think we need to get over this misstep. I totally agree that they played the version number badly, but they also released plenty of warnings about what 4.0 meant and that it was different than a traditional point-oh release. I read these warnings and knew not to take 4.0 seriously. Why didn't other people?
Because people are people. And while KDE warned, no one else did. This was painfully obvious _before_ KDE 4.0 was released, but back then, it was disregarded.
Yes, once KDE 4 is as good and stable as 3.5.10, people will start to get over this.
But that people point out one of the biggest mistakes in FLOSS history (yes, IMO it is _that_ bad) is only natural. And it serves as a warning to others.
Richard
PS: The KDE 2 -> 3 was almost as smooth as silk. I loved KDE 3 pretty much from day two.
Dunno about the US, but in the EU and especially Germany, there are lot of provisions. Not being allowed to sell under your own buying/production price, not being allowed to cross-finance one product with another, not being allowed to tie in some kinds of sales, etc etc etc.
As I said IANAL, but this leaves a strange taste at best.
> So do these websites have a moral or legal obligation to support or cooperate with Google?
IANAL, but anti-trust law seems to imply (to me) that this is against the law.
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It handles de- and encryption transparently.
No, I got the joke. Seems he didn't get/like my counter, though :p
A good year ago there was this _awesome_ tech demo of video & audio that followed you around the house, remotes which worked in 3D, lighting that went off when you left the house etc etc etc...
I have been looking for this stuff for ages, but as I can't seem to remember the name, I have been unable to find it again... Any help?
That, or you misunderstood what I said on purpose, disregarding both context and the options the English grammar gives me.
That's too geeky, even by my standards.
KDE 4 has limited the usefulness of Konqueror in favour of Dolphin. KDE being open source, this will certainly improve over time, but I am running 4.3.2 and some pills are still hard to swallow.
Fwiw, my gf and my work boxes run 3.5.10 and will unfortunately continue to do so for some time.
I learned about this in _grammar school_...
Has anyone a good link that explains, in some depth, how they do this? You have a ship (or more) and they haul the cable to the surface. OK. But what _exactly_ is involved?
If you were to, $deity beware, read the article, you would know that the CO_2 helps transform Nitrogen-rich molecules into others which the plants can then use.
The fact that you can make up pseudo-science-fields that sound funny does not mean you are right. You still have knowledge about the real fields involved.
Having no experience whatsoever in any of the relevant fields, I can positively state that this will not work because I am a lot smarter than all the people who were involved in this and invested their time, grants and own money.
I am cow, hear me moo; I am /. and lots smarter than you!
I love how "ass" is bleeped out and Nazi is an OK word.
Also, both bleeps and asterisks just emphasize that there is something to "hide", making it's effect stronger as it forces the brain out of normal cruise into attention.
While I agree that the design decisions which lead to this were poorly made, this error was common knowledge.
The Patriot system _must_ be restarted every X days, exactly due to this bug. This is documented and everything.
While the initial error was with the people who created the Patriot system, the soldiers who were assigned to the system were the ones who made sure that a documented bug with a known-good work-around became a loss of life.
Well, I think there are a lot of good drivers, but no perfect ones.
Also, you can not stop back at this particular intersection as you can't see into it, otherwise. The fact that the other one was speeding in a curve, downhill, on ice, did not help, either :)
> This is, of course, different from dozing at the wheel, which is entirely different and very much more dangerous!
Yah. It's more like you don't really think about how to ride a bike while cycling. It's just so familiar, you don't have to think about the basic stuff.
Disregarding the needless and baseless personal attack, let me answer this.
1) How is driving in the middle of the road less secure than sticking to the right-hand side when there is _no other traffic_?
2) Sure they do. I only have to tip my turn signal and it will blink three times. But how is this relevant if there is no one near me who can care about it?
3) How do you arrive at the conclusion that I "think swerving is a suitable reaction to anything"?
I would prefer if you went lighter on the personal attacks and heavier on the actual facts and relevant statements so we can do more than throw bits of conversation at each other.
Thing is: Would you have been reacting any faster if you hadn't spaced out?
You will probably have more than one top in your curve. My personal optimum tends to be farther on the "arrives in a reasonable time" and "does not slow down others" side.
Remember: The safest driver is the person who _never_ drives. But we can probably agree that this is not the local optimum most people would choose.
How is the ability to earn money and/or status related to the ability to drive?
The reason you guys suck at driving is that you never learn to do so. Come over to Germany and take a course.. We also have crappy drivers, but ours are a _lot_ better than yours.
And to think I used up my mod points in the discussion about mere light particles!
That is probably because it takes more to be a good driver than to know how to increase speed.
PS: A good driver can still collide with things. I stopped at an intersection, had the way of right and someone slid into me from the left, downhill, on ice. I was already in reverse but as he slid into my lane, I had no chance. Does that make me a bad driver?