QT4 uses Carbon. Carbon sucks => QT sucks on Mac OS X *very* much (*). Much much more than it does on Wind0ze. It's probably my picky eyes - normally I can tell GUI toolkit used just in few mouse clicks the app screen.
You can check Overnet client for example of QT/Carbon Mac OS application. It looks like Cocoa. But when you try to use it... Well, the fact that it's not part of Mac OS X is just creeping out of every piece of its GUI. (Clipboard, drag'n'drop, file names, etc.)
PS I have to use OOo on Windows quite much. OOo1 is quite usable. OOo2 - broke/killed every feature we liked in OOo - so its adoption was put in long box. Can't wait for KO being ported to Windows - it's so much much much much cleaner compared to bloat and wierdness of OOo. QT on Windows is pretty usable.
(*) Just recalled. There are hints that QT in future will support Cocoa. Our GUI developers say so - and they communicate with Trolltech constantly. As well there are rumours that Apple will abandon Carbon support.
I can hardly disagree with you on Ubuntu v. FC/SUSE.
As to the BP with User Linux (PR, "IMHO that was different with User Linux" remark) again it was different. User Linux project is *commercial* project. It's targeted at vendors. It's sort'a like OEM version of Linux. Successful or not - different matter. As any commercial project, it can't live w/o advertisement.
Commericial distros need ads to create demand. Community distros need no advertisement since they are created due to lack of acceptable offerings. It's simple as that.
Anyway, Linux was created to allow for more choices in software. We now have more of them. BP tries to achieve something - and that's fine with me. The proportion of his talks to his deeds is still above one. I do not like people who talk more than they do - e.g. RMS - but I guess it's the same to everybody else.
P.S. Amongst all Linux luminaries, I like BP most. Please also note I do not include Torwalds on the long list of Linux luminaries - the Gods and the Semigods are on different list;-)
"Who cares? Copyright infringement is a strict liability statute. It doesn't matter what you know, or whether you acted in good faith, or anything other than that you perform the act."
What you are saying is valid for criminal law. It's not so for copyright law which is part of common and/or property law. (IOW, having a MP3 on HDD is different from having a knife with traces of human blood.)
Example. I came to book shop and bought a book.
Am I obliged to check that shop is legal and has license to trade? Am I obliged to check with publisher that book isn't bootleg?? Am I obliged to check with author that his book was published with his agreement??? If I didn't do that and yet read the book - am I a potential criminal????
The copyright law was made for tangibale tradable items like books. The fact that traded item now isn't tangibale changes not much: the way you acquired something you presume to be legal. As long as court hasn't declared something illegal - more or less everything is legal. Period.
If you acquire something from illegal source - e.g. black market - then you have a problem.
"the copies usually available for download are not authorized ones."
Thanks God "usually" isn't counted as argument in court. You need to read less laws - but to read more cases.
In fact Japanese count five writing systems. They count also arabic numbers as separate writing. (*)
As to the "cultural distance" remark, I can only label it as wrong. It's not distant - it's different. All people are somehow are different from each other. All cultures are somehow different from each other. All languages are different from each other. Would you want to live in the world where everything is the same? I very much doubt it.
The point, is that people find their culture interesging and try to learn more. We all like to enjoy the fruits of the culture. After all it's so interesting to us because it is so much "different". Isn't it?
People enjoy something because it's different. On one side. On another side then people condemn it - guess why? - because it's different. That's what I call hypocrisy.
(*) Europeans already forgot where they got the numbers. In fact proper writing for '1' in proper English is 'one', for '2' - 'two', and so on. Shall we stop using numbers? - you know this is non-phonetic writing system - it's the same evil as Kanji!?
In Japanese words do not change. In Arabic they do. In fact (similar to German) in Arabic word stem can change depending on context. (In German some stems change normal letter to umlaut - verb conjugation & plural nouns.).
I think Japanese is fun. At moment I'm studing Hiragana - because that's what you need to start learning Kanji.
Writting system is nuts - but well among all the languages I know - Russian, Belarusian, French, English & German - there is no language w/o some weirdness in it.
As to the practicalities, of course learning Chinese & Hindi has more prospects: after all every third person in the world speaks one of the languages (India has many languages - not only Hindi).
But as long as I remain manga & anime fan - I would go on learning Japanese. Anyway I hear lots of it. Why not?
P.S. I use http://japanese.about.com/ a lot - they have piles of information on Japanses. As beginner I find the information and way it is given quite useful. They have RSS feed and it's quite normal for me to start morning by checking it out. And before I lost my PM3 player I also listend Pimsleur courses: they definitely help to start.
Not quite. The main exclusive rights are listed at 17 USC 106. Downloaders infringe on the reproduction right, because when they download, they create a new copy.
This was beaten to death many times by Lessig/friends.
First of all, how would I know that the file I download is protected under copyright law? When one obtains something - free or for money - s/he has no way knowing about attached restrictions. The law says it's duty of copyright holder to notify people about their rights.
When you buy book in shop - how would you know the book isn't counterfeit/the copy is legal??? Same goes here: when you obtain something you presume the guy you have obtained the thing from has the right to distribute it. (*)
Do I make an illegal copy of M$ Wind0ze in RAM of computer when I boot my office computer? Do I make an illegal copy of applications I have when I make a copy of them in RAM - to run them? Do I have to turn off my swap? - since it may contain unauthorized copies of applications Do I have to turn off browser cache? - it contains pages I do not have right no replicate. Can I view DRM'd eBook I have bought? - to view after all I have to make a copy in RAM.
And so on. This is very very very murky ground for moment.
Computer just to function properly makes hundreds copies of information every second. What was presumed to be "copy" in copyright law - isn't even considered to be copy in computerzied world.
P.S. Also, you must remember, that European legal system isn't precedent-based - judges often refer to such thing most americans have forgotten - common sense.
(*) All of the RIAA cases I've seen against P2P users were about downloading song files from them: RIAA was obtaining files from P2P users - iow P2P users were uploaders. Not reverse. Grokster/Napster/etc - are all absolutely different cases.
Since this is FUD campaign, they of course try to scare downloaders - so they use "downloaders" since it's much broader term.
As copyright law concerned, it's uploaders who are infriging. Uploading is distribution. If you want to distribute something - you have to acquire a permission from copyright holder.
Case for downloader is much simpler: downloader has acquired something for personal use. As long as file in question isn't used for anything what's prohibited by copyright law - downloader is clear. "Listening to mp3" is not there. "Distributing" and "profiting" is there.
I probably oversimplify the situation, but that the view I have formed after reading Lessig's blog - http://lessig.org/blog/ And c'mon - it's slashdot;-)
It has also accused the commission of collaborating with its rivals in the software industry
Thanks God M$ haven't accused the european court system in collaborating with its rivals. You heard probably, the whole case was brought to court by this communists/terrotists (underline matching) rivals! And they still work with our rivals against us!! This is conspiracy!!! They are plotting something!!!!! US gov't has definitely to apply pressure and probably send troops somewhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/03/ms_eu_con spiracy_allegations/ & http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/11/eu_ms_resp onse/ - read on about the conspiracy with rivals.)
From all I heard, even IBM after it's first anti-trust case was less verbal. After second one IBM have learned the lessons and changed completely the way they do business and cooperate with others in industry.
IMHO, M$ must be fined for just going around and telling press that they did nothing bad. After they were found guilty. Twice - not less - in US and EU. It's just hard to beleive M$' top management flies so high in the skies...
P.S. I wonder what kind of disaster would happen when they fall. It's just like RFC 1925, rule #3.
Many people have noticed their approach. First they provided fast search. Then they have provided more results. Then have started filtering results to artificially guess what you really want. Then have introduced "hacks" (and in fact they are still introducing them) for most of the often searched items.
E.g. "man ifconfig" as well as "msdn CreateWindow" on Google do what I want and expect from them - fetching me pages with technical documentation. When I search in Germany "Berlin Muenchen" Google gives me option to jump to Bahn.de and look for train connections between the two cities. Weather? - he you go. Movies? - you are welcome. Shopping? - here it is. And so on. (*)
Google is cool because they always tried to bring better results for every search. And they did NOT stuck with "only search" moto like for example Altavista did many years ago. People search for various kinds of information - you can NOT optimize in general - but you can in particular. And Google optimizes lots of lots of the particular cases. That's why I like Google.
That process takes time. And of course, it requires the feat now *very* UNpopular across the IT industry: listening to your users.
Good Luck Ask.com - Google needs some healthy competition;-)
(*) I suspect Google constantly analizes what people look for and which results they click on. That way they can guess in advance what majority of users expects from the search.
P4 v. Pentium Dual Core: one core at 2.2GHz beats 3.5GHz P4.
P4 v. Pentium M/Centrino: at several benchmarks the notebook chip at 1.5GHz had beaten by 2 times 3.2GHz P4
If you have ever programmed in assembler and read even single spec for CPU and code optimization (Intel has good tradition of releasing such specs) you would definitely know that clock speed itself has only modest influence on overall performance. (To put it simply: exec'ing user's code isn't only task CPU is doing - all communication with peripherals goes thru CPU too. CPU normally do about 30-70% of their peek performance: interrupt latencies, memory latencies, bus access latencies, etc.)
I tried that on couple of occasions. But such approach tends to confine less experienced to your vision. That's not nesecary good.
My personal experience. Code sharing. It's complicated as usual. There are lots of collisions. But it really helps.
It helps less experienced to learn 'how' things need to be done properly - and most importantly 'why' they are done so. (Experience is the answers to the question 'why' not 'how' as many wrongly think). Port of working code to another platform is good example of the task that could be given to newcomer. That teaches reviewing and analyzing code, and also automaticaly rookie starts picking up details of several platforms.
Also, that helps the leading programmer. Newbies - when put to task properly - start asking stupid questions. (It's very important to tell people how to ask proper questions - e.g. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ) If newbie stumbled on problem - probably others will stumble too. That's the good time to check why the problem was hit and what/how to amend so other newcomers will not hit the same problem. (e.g. improve/reword documentation, change variable names to better reflect what they do, improve comments, etc). Sometimes it happens newbies find problems: when you devel application for N years, you have in head some well established paths thru the programme's interface and logic. Newbies don't and they hit bugs more often since they use to explorer programme in general without any preferences yet.
If process is set properly, newbie can enrich experienced team with modern approaches/thinking, while newbie himself can learn from team how and why things are done. If process is set wrongly - there would be always collisions - and collisions are always the sign that the process and communication in team is poor.
As a rule of thumb, put newbies to solve new problems. That's easiest and simpliest approach. When faced with new problem - newbies and pros are somewhat equal.
Apple first does new stuff and then after it stabilizes tries to figure out how to add backwardcompatibility. (e.g. Mac OS X got support for Mac OS 9/earlier application not from the start)
M$ always throws backward compatibility from the start. Recall Win9x. Recall WinNT - and why it was considered such a failrure - it wasn't backward compatible enough. Win2k/XP again added another layer of backward compatibility to OS. And alas - they are successful.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
-- Steve Jobs
M$ is primarily marketing body. While Apple's Jobs understands that it's engineers who are making products (without Jobs, Apple is no better than M$FT - just smaller). Good engineering == good products. There are many really great engineers at M$FT - but it's just they have no voice on what goes into products...
I still cannot get what's wrong with *downloading*.
All cases about so-called "P2P piracy" were brought on *uploading* charges. Not for *downloading*.
IOW, uploading is distribution what is illegal. Downloading... well as long as I do not know that what I download is protected by copyright law - I'm innocent. Of course I would delete the files as soon as copyright holder would rightfully notify me that I have acquired respective property w/o paying fees. After all, it's duty of copyright holder to notify me that the content is protected under copyright law - It's not my duty to check does the file has any copyrights attached to it...
P.S. Seriously, I need to read the law... Not that I download music/etc that much off the net.
IIRC Intel's ACPI code was included in Kernel long time ago. It's just ACPI has nothing to do with sensors. (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/)
Sensors it's LM78 project. But. Not on single Linux instalation I've had luck with sensor installation. )-: Most of the time lm78 reported me nothing - given it found any sensors at all...
P.S. Overall, due to separate development of kernel and libc, Linux development rarely results in any kind of API or framework. (Well, except the even rarer case when both developers - libc & kernel ones - happen to be employed by Red Hat.)
To understand the problem of migration - and why it's not happening right away - you have to look bit deeper inside. Business can count money. But it's just at time Oracle had more or less best offer on the market. Business can migrate data - but applications which are written with Oracle in mind - take much longer time to port over to MySQL/PostgreSQL. I witnessed that couple of times.
BTW, most of the biggest installations of MySQL I have seen, were all in companies active users of Oracle. Moving data from Oracle to MySQL is fast (in fact vary vary vary fast - MySQL has outstanding INSERT performance). Porting application stack over to MySQL's relatively poor API - is completely different story.
I have less experience with PostgreSQL. I've seen couple of applications using it - but nothing worth retelling. At times I was piloting sql servers for my work - PgSQL have had several limitations we couldn't have overcome at application level, thus I went with MySQL. Probably others can fill the blank.
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Well you already can tell Windows (starting from w2k) to launch application under another account. Thou most Wind0ze applications can't that. It's not the problem of applications - it's that the windows api expects all the fancy stuff - like desktop and registry - to be present and set up for the user. Conventional apps rarely run okay that way - several admin applications run that way w/o problems.
Try it. Right click on the link to application or application itself and select "Run As". (Also you can hold "shift" button on right click - that way Wind0ze' Explorer would display complete right-click menu for the target, "Run As..." would be definitely there).
Note that under *nix, it's security feature to run application w/o bells and whistles. It's almost impossible to run them otherwise. Under Windows, due to mandated GUI, applications are always "fatter" compared to their *nix counterparts. In Unix world it's norm to have GUI running in unpriviliged mode and then pass user commands to small back-end tool running with all required priviliges. One can compromise the front-end - but still privileged back-end would dissmiss any disallowed command. For some unknown reason I rarely see such approach being used on windoze.
I've tried it at home but found that I consider to be ads much broader range of content...
And not everyone knows about the filtersets. And it's very accustomized to U.S. providers. E.g. I see quite much ads on German and Russians sites. And with filtersets installed, adding another rule is bit more difficult than with plain AdBlock.
Anyway, I use AdBlock for quite some time and my rule set is *very* long and kills *all* what *I* consider ad, not some other guys.
AdBlock can block scripts too. In fact AdBlock can block almost anything: images, iframes, embeds, objects, etc.
Not all people are that good with HTML/Web terminology: AdBlock unfortunately use lots of it. It's okay for me. But my friend e.g. has whole bunch of extensions (a-la FlashBlock, NoScript) which in fact do what I do with AdBlock alone.
You are wrong. Apple officially said that it has no objections to running anything you like on hardware you bought from them. Apple isn't fancy about Mac OS X being run on something else - but otherwise hardware is yours. And when you buy Apple's hardware, you get the OS for "free".
Anyway, you always have choices. Unlike M$, Apple doesn't try to force everyone along its line. In other words, when M$ would make DRM mandatory part of their OS, rest assured nobody would be able to "refuse" such "offer".
Apple is here for more choices for you. Not less. As well as Linux.
Normally when I see such posts as yours, I can only guess that you are (as many other people, me in part too) are confined to Dell/M$ stuff. People who have learned about available choices and their price are more balanced in their view of situation.
IOW, for the first [CENSORED] time in decade you have real choice of operational system / platform you like to have at home. Go and learn them. That would be my advice to you.
I think that makes my case that the rental market is not what people want.
You seem to not get it. They want to transform the payment you do now per song into some sort of a tax. You pay $10/15 per month and that it.
As soon everyone pays, the restrictions can go away: anyway everyone pays for everything.
It's sort'a good for artists - they will be compensated. And even better to RIAA: they need to do nothing but count money flowing in from the tax.
P.S. I wonder what kind of artists would be once such system would be put in place. Most of the time, I see creative people who create mostly because they can, not because they can profit. (*)
(*) BTW, that's the true business model of RIAA: they isolate artists from society and try to milk them as long as possible. When creativity's ran out & PR hype is down, they just replace the idol/start with something new. It's not that artists primarily after money, it's just that we don't mind paying middle man the money.
Yeah, and with "Unix Killer" (aka Wind0ze NT), "Mainframe Killer" (aka Wind0ze 2000) too.
Vista I suppose would go along line of "consumer rights killer", "choice killer", "linux killer" or "mac os x killer". Everyone would get it preinstalled on all kinds of gadgets so it would immediately become "most popular" & "ubiquitous"...
Thanks God, despite the "Killer" line of products from M$, we still have the choice: linux, mac os x & freeciv.
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Is there any Live CD/DVD with KO/1.5?
I have checked Kubuntu - they have already packages, but no live cd/dvd yet.
QT4 uses Carbon. Carbon sucks => QT sucks on Mac OS X *very* much (*). Much much more than it does on Wind0ze. It's probably my picky eyes - normally I can tell GUI toolkit used just in few mouse clicks the app screen.
You can check Overnet client for example of QT/Carbon Mac OS application. It looks like Cocoa. But when you try to use it... Well, the fact that it's not part of Mac OS X is just creeping out of every piece of its GUI. (Clipboard, drag'n'drop, file names, etc.)
PS I have to use OOo on Windows quite much. OOo1 is quite usable. OOo2 - broke/killed every feature we liked in OOo - so its adoption was put in long box. Can't wait for KO being ported to Windows - it's so much much much much cleaner compared to bloat and wierdness of OOo. QT on Windows is pretty usable.
(*) Just recalled. There are hints that QT in future will support Cocoa. Our GUI developers say so - and they communicate with Trolltech constantly. As well there are rumours that Apple will abandon Carbon support.
I can hardly disagree with you on Ubuntu v. FC/SUSE.
;-)
As to the BP with User Linux (PR, "IMHO that was different with User Linux" remark) again it was different. User Linux project is *commercial* project. It's targeted at vendors. It's sort'a like OEM version of Linux. Successful or not - different matter. As any commercial project, it can't live w/o advertisement.
Commericial distros need ads to create demand. Community distros need no advertisement since they are created due to lack of acceptable offerings. It's simple as that.
Anyway, Linux was created to allow for more choices in software. We now have more of them. BP tries to achieve something - and that's fine with me. The proportion of his talks to his deeds is still above one. I do not like people who talk more than they do - e.g. RMS - but I guess it's the same to everybody else.
P.S. Amongst all Linux luminaries, I like BP most. Please also note I do not include Torwalds on the long list of Linux luminaries - the Gods and the Semigods are on different list
What you are saying is valid for criminal law. It's not so for copyright law which is part of common and/or property law. (IOW, having a MP3 on HDD is different from having a knife with traces of human blood.)
Example. I came to book shop and bought a book.
Am I obliged to check that shop is legal and has license to trade?
Am I obliged to check with publisher that book isn't bootleg??
Am I obliged to check with author that his book was published with his agreement???
If I didn't do that and yet read the book - am I a potential criminal????
The copyright law was made for tangibale tradable items like books. The fact that traded item now isn't tangibale changes not much: the way you acquired something you presume to be legal. As long as court hasn't declared something illegal - more or less everything is legal. Period.
If you acquire something from illegal source - e.g. black market - then you have a problem.
Thanks God "usually" isn't counted as argument in court. You need to read less laws - but to read more cases.
In fact Japanese count five writing systems. They count also arabic numbers as separate writing. (*)
As to the "cultural distance" remark, I can only label it as wrong. It's not distant - it's different. All people are somehow are different from each other. All cultures are somehow different from each other. All languages are different from each other. Would you want to live in the world where everything is the same? I very much doubt it.
The point, is that people find their culture interesging and try to learn more. We all like to enjoy the fruits of the culture. After all it's so interesting to us because it is so much "different". Isn't it?
People enjoy something because it's different. On one side. On another side then people condemn it - guess why? - because it's different. That's what I call hypocrisy.
(*) Europeans already forgot where they got the numbers. In fact proper writing for '1' in proper English is 'one', for '2' - 'two', and so on. Shall we stop using numbers? - you know this is non-phonetic writing system - it's the same evil as Kanji!?
In Japanese words do not change. In Arabic they do. In fact (similar to German) in Arabic word stem can change depending on context. (In German some stems change normal letter to umlaut - verb conjugation & plural nouns.).
I think Japanese is fun. At moment I'm studing Hiragana - because that's what you need to start learning Kanji.
Writting system is nuts - but well among all the languages I know - Russian, Belarusian, French, English & German - there is no language w/o some weirdness in it.
As to the practicalities, of course learning Chinese & Hindi has more prospects: after all every third person in the world speaks one of the languages (India has many languages - not only Hindi).
But as long as I remain manga & anime fan - I would go on learning Japanese. Anyway I hear lots of it. Why not?
P.S. I use http://japanese.about.com/ a lot - they have piles of information on Japanses. As beginner I find the information and way it is given quite useful. They have RSS feed and it's quite normal for me to start morning by checking it out. And before I lost my PM3 player I also listend Pimsleur courses: they definitely help to start.
Not quite. The main exclusive rights are listed at 17 USC 106. Downloaders infringe on the reproduction right, because when they download, they create a new copy.
This was beaten to death many times by Lessig/friends.
First of all, how would I know that the file I download is protected under copyright law? When one obtains something - free or for money - s/he has no way knowing about attached restrictions. The law says it's duty of copyright holder to notify people about their rights.
When you buy book in shop - how would you know the book isn't counterfeit/the copy is legal??? Same goes here: when you obtain something you presume the guy you have obtained the thing from has the right to distribute it. (*)
Do I make an illegal copy of M$ Wind0ze in RAM of computer when I boot my office computer?
Do I make an illegal copy of applications I have when I make a copy of them in RAM - to run them?
Do I have to turn off my swap? - since it may contain unauthorized copies of applications
Do I have to turn off browser cache? - it contains pages I do not have right no replicate.
Can I view DRM'd eBook I have bought? - to view after all I have to make a copy in RAM.
And so on. This is very very very murky ground for moment.
Computer just to function properly makes hundreds copies of information every second. What was presumed to be "copy" in copyright law - isn't even considered to be copy in computerzied world.
P.S. Also, you must remember, that European legal system isn't precedent-based - judges often refer to such thing most americans have forgotten - common sense.
(*) All of the RIAA cases I've seen against P2P users were about downloading song files from them: RIAA was obtaining files from P2P users - iow P2P users were uploaders. Not reverse. Grokster/Napster/etc - are all absolutely different cases.
Constantly...
Since this is FUD campaign, they of course try to scare downloaders - so they use "downloaders" since it's much broader term.
;-)
As copyright law concerned, it's uploaders who are infriging. Uploading is distribution. If you want to distribute something - you have to acquire a permission from copyright holder.
Case for downloader is much simpler: downloader has acquired something for personal use. As long as file in question isn't used for anything what's prohibited by copyright law - downloader is clear. "Listening to mp3" is not there. "Distributing" and "profiting" is there.
I probably oversimplify the situation, but that the view I have formed after reading Lessig's blog - http://lessig.org/blog/ And c'mon - it's slashdot
I over see here in Germany no headlines related to the IPFI cases.
Heise.de - primary source of IT news in Germany - would have picked the story up immediately. Presuming there is a story. Apparently there is none.
Or can anyone provide a link to the nytime source?
Thanks God M$ haven't accused the european court system in collaborating with its rivals. You heard probably, the whole case was brought to court by this communists/terrotists (underline matching) rivals! And they still work with our rivals against us!! This is conspiracy!!! They are plotting something!!!!! US gov't has definitely to apply pressure and probably send troops somewhere. (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/03/ms_eu_co
From all I heard, even IBM after it's first anti-trust case was less verbal. After second one IBM have learned the lessons and changed completely the way they do business and cooperate with others in industry.
IMHO, M$ must be fined for just going around and telling press that they did nothing bad. After they were found guilty. Twice - not less - in US and EU. It's just hard to beleive M$' top management flies so high in the skies...
P.S. I wonder what kind of disaster would happen when they fall. It's just like RFC 1925, rule #3.
Google people are clever.
;-)
Many people have noticed their approach. First they provided fast search. Then they have provided more results. Then have started filtering results to artificially guess what you really want. Then have introduced "hacks" (and in fact they are still introducing them) for most of the often searched items.
E.g. "man ifconfig" as well as "msdn CreateWindow" on Google do what I want and expect from them - fetching me pages with technical documentation. When I search in Germany "Berlin Muenchen" Google gives me option to jump to Bahn.de and look for train connections between the two cities. Weather? - he you go. Movies? - you are welcome. Shopping? - here it is. And so on. (*)
Google is cool because they always tried to bring better results for every search. And they did NOT stuck with "only search" moto like for example Altavista did many years ago. People search for various kinds of information - you can NOT optimize in general - but you can in particular. And Google optimizes lots of lots of the particular cases. That's why I like Google.
That process takes time. And of course, it requires the feat now *very* UNpopular across the IT industry: listening to your users.
Good Luck Ask.com - Google needs some healthy competition
(*) I suspect Google constantly analizes what people look for and which results they click on. That way they can guess in advance what majority of users expects from the search.
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I have had funniest experience with Intel itself.
P4 v. Pentium Dual Core: one core at 2.2GHz beats 3.5GHz P4.
P4 v. Pentium M/Centrino: at several benchmarks the notebook chip at 1.5GHz had beaten by 2 times 3.2GHz P4
If you have ever programmed in assembler and read even single spec for CPU and code optimization (Intel has good tradition of releasing such specs) you would definitely know that clock speed itself has only modest influence on overall performance. (To put it simply: exec'ing user's code isn't only task CPU is doing - all communication with peripherals goes thru CPU too. CPU normally do about 30-70% of their peek performance: interrupt latencies, memory latencies, bus access latencies, etc.)
Read on: older http://www.intel.com/design/pentium/manuals/ & newer http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/inde
I tried that on couple of occasions. But such approach tends to confine less experienced to your vision. That's not nesecary good.
l ) If newbie stumbled on problem - probably others will stumble too. That's the good time to check why the problem was hit and what/how to amend so other newcomers will not hit the same problem. (e.g. improve/reword documentation, change variable names to better reflect what they do, improve comments, etc). Sometimes it happens newbies find problems: when you devel application for N years, you have in head some well established paths thru the programme's interface and logic. Newbies don't and they hit bugs more often since they use to explorer programme in general without any preferences yet.
My personal experience. Code sharing. It's complicated as usual. There are lots of collisions. But it really helps.
It helps less experienced to learn 'how' things need to be done properly - and most importantly 'why' they are done so. (Experience is the answers to the question 'why' not 'how' as many wrongly think). Port of working code to another platform is good example of the task that could be given to newcomer. That teaches reviewing and analyzing code, and also automaticaly rookie starts picking up details of several platforms.
Also, that helps the leading programmer. Newbies - when put to task properly - start asking stupid questions. (It's very important to tell people how to ask proper questions - e.g. http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm
If process is set properly, newbie can enrich experienced team with modern approaches/thinking, while newbie himself can learn from team how and why things are done. If process is set wrongly - there would be always collisions - and collisions are always the sign that the process and communication in team is poor.
As a rule of thumb, put newbies to solve new problems. That's easiest and simpliest approach. When faced with new problem - newbies and pros are somewhat equal.
I hope free internet connection with real IP address would be included. Otherwise - count me out.
There is a difference.
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Apple first does new stuff and then after it stabilizes tries to figure out how to add backwardcompatibility. (e.g. Mac OS X got support for Mac OS 9/earlier application not from the start)
M$ always throws backward compatibility from the start. Recall Win9x. Recall WinNT - and why it was considered such a failrure - it wasn't backward compatible enough. Win2k/XP again added another layer of backward compatibility to OS. And alas - they are successful.
There is a difference. M$ - marketing first. Apple? - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/stevej
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
-- Steve Jobs
And then read official news for what Billg/management has to say (e.g. http://news.com.com/Is+Vistas+delay+good+for+the+
M$ is primarily marketing body. While Apple's Jobs understands that it's engineers who are making products (without Jobs, Apple is no better than M$FT - just smaller). Good engineering == good products. There are many really great engineers at M$FT - but it's just they have no voice on what goes into products...
I still cannot get what's wrong with *downloading*.
All cases about so-called "P2P piracy" were brought on *uploading* charges. Not for *downloading*.
IOW, uploading is distribution what is illegal. Downloading... well as long as I do not know that what I download is protected by copyright law - I'm innocent. Of course I would delete the files as soon as copyright holder would rightfully notify me that I have acquired respective property w/o paying fees. After all, it's duty of copyright holder to notify me that the content is protected under copyright law - It's not my duty to check does the file has any copyrights attached to it...
P.S. Seriously, I need to read the law... Not that I download music/etc that much off the net.
IIRC Intel's ACPI code was included in Kernel long time ago. It's just ACPI has nothing to do with sensors. (http://acpi.sourceforge.net/)
Sensors it's LM78 project. But. Not on single Linux instalation I've had luck with sensor installation. )-: Most of the time lm78 reported me nothing - given it found any sensors at all...
P.S. Overall, due to separate development of kernel and libc, Linux development rarely results in any kind of API or framework. (Well, except the even rarer case when both developers - libc & kernel ones - happen to be employed by Red Hat.)
To understand the problem of migration - and why it's not happening right away - you have to look bit deeper inside. Business can count money. But it's just at time Oracle had more or less best offer on the market. Business can migrate data - but applications which are written with Oracle in mind - take much longer time to port over to MySQL/PostgreSQL. I witnessed that couple of times.
BTW, most of the biggest installations of MySQL I have seen, were all in companies active users of Oracle. Moving data from Oracle to MySQL is fast (in fact vary vary vary fast - MySQL has outstanding INSERT performance). Porting application stack over to MySQL's relatively poor API - is completely different story.
I have less experience with PostgreSQL. I've seen couple of applications using it - but nothing worth retelling. At times I was piloting sql servers for my work - PgSQL have had several limitations we couldn't have overcome at application level, thus I went with MySQL. Probably others can fill the blank.
Well you already can tell Windows (starting from w2k) to launch application under another account. Thou most Wind0ze applications can't that. It's not the problem of applications - it's that the windows api expects all the fancy stuff - like desktop and registry - to be present and set up for the user. Conventional apps rarely run okay that way - several admin applications run that way w/o problems.
Try it. Right click on the link to application or application itself and select "Run As". (Also you can hold "shift" button on right click - that way Wind0ze' Explorer would display complete right-click menu for the target, "Run As..." would be definitely there).
Note that under *nix, it's security feature to run application w/o bells and whistles. It's almost impossible to run them otherwise. Under Windows, due to mandated GUI, applications are always "fatter" compared to their *nix counterparts. In Unix world it's norm to have GUI running in unpriviliged mode and then pass user commands to small back-end tool running with all required priviliges. One can compromise the front-end - but still privileged back-end would dissmiss any disallowed command. For some unknown reason I rarely see such approach being used on windoze.
And not everyone knows about the filtersets. And it's very accustomized to U.S. providers. E.g. I see quite much ads on German and Russians sites. And with filtersets installed, adding another rule is bit more difficult than with plain AdBlock.
Anyway, I use AdBlock for quite some time and my rule set is *very* long and kills *all* what *I* consider ad, not some other guys.
AdBlock can block scripts too. In fact AdBlock can block almost anything: images, iframes, embeds, objects, etc.
Not all people are that good with HTML/Web terminology: AdBlock unfortunately use lots of it. It's okay for me. But my friend e.g. has whole bunch of extensions (a-la FlashBlock, NoScript) which in fact do what I do with AdBlock alone.
You are wrong. Apple officially said that it has no objections to running anything you like on hardware you bought from them. Apple isn't fancy about Mac OS X being run on something else - but otherwise hardware is yours. And when you buy Apple's hardware, you get the OS for "free".
Anyway, you always have choices. Unlike M$, Apple doesn't try to force everyone along its line. In other words, when M$ would make DRM mandatory part of their OS, rest assured nobody would be able to "refuse" such "offer".
Apple is here for more choices for you. Not less. As well as Linux.
Normally when I see such posts as yours, I can only guess that you are (as many other people, me in part too) are confined to Dell/M$ stuff. People who have learned about available choices and their price are more balanced in their view of situation.
IOW, for the first [CENSORED] time in decade you have real choice of operational system / platform you like to have at home. Go and learn them. That would be my advice to you.
You seem to not get it. They want to transform the payment you do now per song into some sort of a tax. You pay $10/15 per month and that it.
As soon everyone pays, the restrictions can go away: anyway everyone pays for everything.
It's sort'a good for artists - they will be compensated. And even better to RIAA: they need to do nothing but count money flowing in from the tax.
P.S. I wonder what kind of artists would be once such system would be put in place. Most of the time, I see creative people who create mostly because they can, not because they can profit. (*)
(*) BTW, that's the true business model of RIAA: they isolate artists from society and try to milk them as long as possible. When creativity's ran out & PR hype is down, they just replace the idol/start with something new. It's not that artists primarily after money, it's just that we don't mind paying middle man the money.
Vista I suppose would go along line of "consumer rights killer", "choice killer", "linux killer" or "mac os x killer". Everyone would get it preinstalled on all kinds of gadgets so it would immediately become "most popular" & "ubiquitous"...
Thanks God, despite the "Killer" line of products from M$, we still have the choice: linux, mac os x & freeciv.