Bonuses based on code "quality" and or quantity has been tried before. It simply does not work. Counting the number of security issues some guy makes does not necessarily mean he or she is a good developer. It depends on several factors:
- difficult or simple code
- amount of code written
- where in the application does the developer code? Some code is more likely to result in security issues.
- how well that person knows the code
Lack of vitamin C will give you scurvy!
Seriously, you only have to go to northern sweden/norway to see this in action. You'll find a combination of zombies and nutcases!
That is a problem with the education system, not the fact that you want to educate the masses.
Ideally, you spend an equal amount of resources on each student all over your country. That would give everyone the same opportunities.
If that is the best for the country or not is another question though depending on what you value (educated people or GDP)
In norway we've practiced "no child left behind" in the lower grade schools for the last 20 years (up til high school). I've never read any official studies about it but I can confirm that teachers are indeed spending a lot of their time getting the "slower" students through the curriculum.
It's interesting to read that the lack of attention indeed slows down the high achievers as well. I would be interesting to know how much attention they would require to achieve what they are good for. Optimally you leave no one behind and you make your bright minds excel!
So unless our troll is using emacs or windowmaker or something like that for his "desktop environment" he should take his anonymous coward business elsewhere.
As a long time KDE user I can tell you that this is not true. Not that KDE 4 isn't very impressive (I love, that's why I use it) but these two projects are developed in parallel. They watch each other as hawks and most of the features are in fact quite similar. Yes, there are some differences, but hey they are different products.
Love the fact that we have competition on the desktop on Linux. It's our greatest blessing!
This story sparked my interest so I searched for a while on the internet to find some maps of what the world looked like back in the ages and where evidence of people has been found linked with DNA evidence of how people actually have moved.
I sadly came up with nothing... anyone who knows where to find anything like this?
This is complete rubbish. Changing major versions often notifies of backwards incompatibility. Examples:
qt1 -> qt2 -> qt3 -> qt4
gtk1 -> gtk2
linux kernel v1 vs v2.
Go to France for the strangest keyboard. They have switched at least six letters on the keyboard.
The numbers are special the special symbols by default and you have to press shift to get the numbers or use caps lock.
In addition to that . has switched with : and , has switched with;. God knows why they went for this design...
5. Very very slow upgrade cycle for major packages (KDE is a good example)
Do you mean slow time to see updated ebuilds or that it takes a long time to compile? 3.58 is in the repos & there is a 4.0 overlay. Think there are even cvs ebuilds floating around.
Compiling is not the issue. That is very fast on modern computers. Also, the ebuilds often are in portage alright. The problem however is that it sometimes takes AGES for them to be marked stable. And yes, I know you can "fix" that. However, that usually leads to a cascade of masking issues which you again have to maintain etc.
Yeah, I know the --depclean trick. Unfortunately on my gentoo boxes it crashes (and has to be run several times) more often than I have time for.
Let me add a few more:
6. You are forced to update VERY frequently. More than a month and you are CERTAIN to get issues while compiling.
7. Actually getting a usable desktop (with udev, automounting etc.) working is a hell of a lot of work
I left gentoo some time ago due to severe problems. Let me sum up the most problematic ones:
1. Package system becoming VERY VERY slow because of the amount db size.
2. No sane way to upgrade properly without doing several rounds of breaking and fixing library dependencies
3. USE flags change all the time and often leave the apps crippled if you don't set it up "just" right (try PHP)
4. No automatic way to uninstall a package and have the system automatically remove the unused ones.
5. Very very slow upgrade cycle for major packages (KDE is a good example)
This http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmar k.html article from 2006 shows you how much memory Gnome/KDE use. Even though it is written by a KDE member I can't see why he should have messed with the numbers. As you can see KDE actually uses a bit less (not much though) memory than Gnome.
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Yes they are. Check out the filtering extension which allows you to set up automatic rules on what variables are accepted and the format they should be in. This in combination with a PHP framework of some sort (e.g eZ components from eZ systems... yes this is a commercial) should close at least one door.
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Even though I can't see the norwegian letters I still need to use them:)
He thinks so _now_. Of course he does, he is in a position where the patents are working his way. However, it seems that he is a pretty smart guy who knows how the law is really working. Open source software and small competitors are being f##### by it while he gets the big money! Very smart..
The growing use of proprietary Qt for proprietary Linux applications (Kylix, Opera, etc.) is one of the greatest threats to the freedom of Linux. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft and Trolltech are already working together, with a Microsoft plan to lock-in Linux.
Hahaha.. yes, in the same way that I plan to take over the world together with Elvis and Hitler.
Muahahaha
The trolltech people would rather roll over and die than letting Qt fall into the hands of SCO.
If there is a hostile takeover you bet they are going to release a BSD version. In fact this is what the free qt foundation is about. http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p hp
I was,just like you, looking for a replacement for xmms, and I found it in amaroK which is a nice audio player centered around a very good playlist editor.
You'd have to show MANY DVD's at the same time to show the potential of a link like this. I'd rather copy the whole DVD over the link to show the speed.
Slashdot Mirror
Alien species are certainly going to take pictures of that and add the words EPIC FAIL on top.
Bonuses based on code "quality" and or quantity has been tried before. It simply does not work. Counting the number of security issues some guy makes does not necessarily mean he or she is a good developer. It depends on several factors:
- difficult or simple code
- amount of code written
- where in the application does the developer code? Some code is more likely to result in security issues.
- how well that person knows the code
Lack of vitamin C will give you scurvy!
:D
Seriously, you only have to go to northern sweden/norway to see this in action. You'll find a combination of zombies and nutcases!
I suspect similar results in canda and russia
That is a problem with the education system, not the fact that you want to educate the masses.
Ideally, you spend an equal amount of resources on each student all over your country. That would give everyone the same opportunities.
If that is the best for the country or not is another question though depending on what you value (educated people or GDP)
In norway we've practiced "no child left behind" in the lower grade schools for the last 20 years (up til high school). I've never read any official studies about it but I can confirm that teachers are indeed spending a lot of their time getting the "slower" students through the curriculum.
It's interesting to read that the lack of attention indeed slows down the high achievers as well. I would be interesting to know how much attention they would require to achieve what they are good for. Optimally you leave no one behind and you make your bright minds excel!
I suggest KillerFS!
And here is a memory usage test written by a gnome guy a couple of years back for KDE3. Gnome and KDE use more or less the same amount of memory: http://spooky-possum.org/cgi-bin/pyblosxom.cgi/kdevsgnome.html
So unless our troll is using emacs or windowmaker or something like that for his "desktop environment" he should take his anonymous coward business elsewhere.
As a long time KDE user I can tell you that this is not true. Not that KDE 4 isn't very impressive (I love, that's why I use it) but these two projects are developed in parallel. They watch each other as hawks and most of the features are in fact quite similar. Yes, there are some differences, but hey they are different products.
Love the fact that we have competition on the desktop on Linux. It's our greatest blessing!
This story sparked my interest so I searched for a while on the internet to find some maps of what the world looked like back in the ages and where evidence of people has been found linked with DNA evidence of how people actually have moved.
I sadly came up with nothing... anyone who knows where to find anything like this?
We should get an answer to this once and for all by the means of a serious and infallible slashdot poll!
This is complete rubbish. Changing major versions often notifies of backwards incompatibility. Examples:
qt1 -> qt2 -> qt3 -> qt4
gtk1 -> gtk2
linux kernel v1 vs v2.
One can go on forever here...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/004233
The numbers are special the special symbols by default and you have to press shift to get the numbers or use caps lock. ;.
In addition to that . has switched with : and , has switched with
God knows why they went for this design...
Yeah, I know the --depclean trick. Unfortunately on my gentoo boxes it crashes (and has to be run several times) more often than I have time for.
Let me add a few more:
6. You are forced to update VERY frequently. More than a month and you are CERTAIN to get issues while compiling.
7. Actually getting a usable desktop (with udev, automounting etc.) working is a hell of a lot of work
I left gentoo some time ago due to severe problems. Let me sum up the most problematic ones: 1. Package system becoming VERY VERY slow because of the amount db size. 2. No sane way to upgrade properly without doing several rounds of breaking and fixing library dependencies 3. USE flags change all the time and often leave the apps crippled if you don't set it up "just" right (try PHP) 4. No automatic way to uninstall a package and have the system automatically remove the unused ones. 5. Very very slow upgrade cycle for major packages (KDE is a good example)
This http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmar k.html article from 2006 shows you how much memory Gnome/KDE use. Even though it is written by a KDE member I can't see why he should have messed with the numbers. As you can see KDE actually uses a bit less (not much though) memory than Gnome.
PEAR and the new eZ components http://ez.no/community/news/ez_components_1_0_rele ase_candidate_1
Yes they are. Check out the filtering extension which allows you to set up automatic rules on what variables are accepted and the format they should be in. This in combination with a PHP framework of some sort (e.g eZ components from eZ systems... yes this is a commercial) should close at least one door.
Even though I can't see the norwegian letters I still need to use them :)
He thinks so _now_. Of course he does, he is in a position where the patents are working his way. However, it seems that he is a pretty smart guy who knows how the law is really working. Open source software and small competitors are being f##### by it while he gets the big money!
Very smart..
The growing use of proprietary Qt for proprietary Linux applications (Kylix, Opera, etc.) is one of the greatest threats to the freedom of Linux. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft and Trolltech are already working together, with a Microsoft plan to lock-in Linux.
Hahaha.. yes, in the same way that I plan to take over the world together with Elvis and Hitler.
Muahahaha
The trolltech people would rather roll over and die than letting Qt fall into the hands of SCO. If there is a hostile takeover you bet they are going to release a BSD version. In fact this is what the free qt foundation is about. http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.p hp
I was,just like you, looking for a replacement for xmms, and I found it in amaroK which is a nice audio player centered around a very good playlist editor.
You'd have to show MANY DVD's at the same time to show the potential of a link like this. I'd rather copy the whole DVD over the link to show the speed.