One of my ex-bosses demanded receipt confirmations one sunny day. In a week, we had all our internal e-mails spammed to death instead of just support@, info@ and such.
As for intended usage... I think he could tell who was actually reading his messages well before even sending them.
IMHO the best outcome for RHAT is as follows: software patents exist, but impact no free software. Thus such a precedent is good for them.
It even makes some sence (if we assume "sence" and "SW patents" are compatible), since open-source is a way of sharing secrets/knowledge for a benefit, just like patents are (at least in theory).
Windows works just fine, quit trying to be different for the sake of being different. Hey, what the hell are you doing with those two sticks? Rubbing them against one another?.. Sheesh! Quit trying to be different and go eat raw meat! Everyone knows it's the *best* food one can get.
Here's how it might be considered copyright infringement (Disclaimer: IANAL):
The EULA must be saying something like "thou shalt not create or use bots". One cannot write a complex program without ever testing it, so either the author or the alpha-testers have broken their EULAs and therefore are infringing on Blizzard's copyright.
At least I know it works this way for GPL violations.
Microsoft has a long history of encouraging undocumented feature usage, instead of providing a well-documented hooking mechanisms for everyone, and *that's* what they should be slammed for on slashdot.
Of course, the opposite approach (as in "let's break something in the next release, they have the source, after all") is not ideal either.
Perhaps there should be some quirk-dealing layer between the kernel (which has few well-documented entry points) and applications. This way, affected parties can hotfix compatibility problems on their own, even if updating is not an option.
Or have I just invented WINE?.. (and maybe LD_PRELOAD)
What Google deserves is the market leader position (they are currently in). But not a monopoly. Monopoly means abusing the market and destroying competition.
He'll associate Linux with incompatibility, difficulties, and piss poor performance. And he may tell his friends.
Ironically, that's how DOS (and later Windows) started out -- a "quick and dirty" OS on top of a dirt cheap machine. It must have offered exactly the experience you describe compared to Unix, OS/2, Apple, or whatever.
The mass market, however, often chooses the cheapest product of tolerable quality, and not the best one, nor even the best price/quality. And since a linux PC can run a few simple games, web/mail/im, and basic word processing, it *is* of tolerable quality for at least some people.
Works for Microsoft. Might work against them as well.
When the larger OEMs announce that they will require 10 million units in the next quarter with DPM of less than 500, there are only a few companies that can meet that kind of demand.
For this point to be valid it must be prohibitively expensive to launch a new product line totalling to say 1M units (something AMD definitely can ship).
Considering that smaller OEMs do exist (10M is what the largest sell worldwide, right?), I believe this to be false. I'd like to see the numbers though.
$10/unit must be OK for not putting all the eggs in one basket. IANAOEM.
Having been flooded by a defective pipe, I must say that a qualified plumber deserves respect as well. The problem is, you need a plumber's advice or a disaster to tell a good plumber from a bad one.
Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
The sad part is that slavery was abandoned *because* it was economically inacceptable. In 1861, Russia has gotten rid of the serfdom (effectively slavery) because the Europeans were beating us with all those factories and inventions and stuff.
The even sadder part is that Microsoft's monopoly (as in ability to dictate to buyers) will not be destroyed by anti-monopoly activity, because you don't usually make soup of a hen that lays golden eggs.
MS's monopoly will be destroyed by market forces (if it will at all). The companies that depend on Microsoft are already leveraging Linux to get better deals. On the other hang, the Penguin barely flies despite being supported by many major players such as Google and IBM.
The not so sad part is that Google might be a slightly better Microsoft than Microsoft, and IBM is told to be a much worse one back in the day.
I should mention for completeness that two other guys (Church, and dang, I forgot the other one) also proposed systems that were provably equivalent to Turing's machine around the same time, but Turing's was the easiest one to turn into an actual machine.
Andrey Markov was his name, and the algorithm he proposed can be described as a system of several search-and-replace statements that are applied one by one to a string, until one of them matches. Then, the statements are tried against the modified string from the beginning, and so on. Optionally, some statements may cause the "machine" to halt when they first match. If no statement can be applied, the machine also halts.
Of course, this is equivalent to a Turing Machine, as they can emulate each other.
ALT Linux seems to be a Redhat recompile in the style of CentOS with some extra Russian documentation etc.
ALT Linux is based on a community-driven repository called Sisyphus. It was a Mandrake clone long ago, but has evolved into a separate distribution. For instance, it uses an apt/rpm hybrid package management system instead of Mandrake's urpmi.
While it has some drawbacks and is sometimes dependent on the upstream, it's still a valid choice if you need a Russian-speaking community. Not Debian yet, but not an RH clone as well.
The ALTLinux company, on the other hand, is known for holding various linux-related events and generally pushing linux in Russia.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Free! upgrade was only available for Windows Vista (r) (tm) laptops. Hence TFA (I've read it here).
Probably, this was a mistake, which was corrented around Wednesday. Now, the Free! upgrade is available for all systems, and therefore Ubuntu is cheaper again.
The story hit slashdot too late (I was even thinking about posting it to/. to make Dell notice the mistake.)
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So, at least something that ignored returns and whitespace and thus allowed the programmer to structure the expression hierarchically would be nice.
In perl, you can do just that:
Perl does have horrible things about it (mentioned elsewhere in this topic), but the regexps are NOT one of them.
One of my ex-bosses demanded receipt confirmations one sunny day. In a week, we had all our internal e-mails spammed to death instead of just support@, info@ and such.
As for intended usage... I think he could tell who was actually reading his messages well before even sending them.
IMHO the best outcome for RHAT is as follows: software patents exist, but impact no free software. Thus such a precedent is good for them.
It even makes some sence (if we assume "sence" and "SW patents" are compatible), since open-source is a way of sharing secrets/knowledge for a benefit, just like patents are (at least in theory).
Just found a Linux EEE selling for 9500 RUR (a bit less than $400). Not at a big store, though.
Even worse here in Russia. You can only get a Linux-driven EEE off the internet, all retailers are selling the XP model only.
The XP model costs about $400 (10000 RUR to be precise), and the Linux-powered one is about $100 more expensive.
I know at least two people who bought the XP one with an intention to install Linux, but I guess statisticians don't.
Microsoft are extremely good at coming from behind. They are a hunter rather than a racer.
Here's how it might be considered copyright infringement (Disclaimer: IANAL):
The EULA must be saying something like "thou shalt not create or use bots". One cannot write a complex program without ever testing it, so either the author or the alpha-testers have broken their EULAs and therefore are infringing on Blizzard's copyright.
At least I know it works this way for GPL violations.
Microsoft has a long history of encouraging undocumented feature usage, instead of providing a well-documented hooking mechanisms for everyone, and *that's* what they should be slammed for on slashdot.
Of course, the opposite approach (as in "let's break something in the next release, they have the source, after all") is not ideal either.
Perhaps there should be some quirk-dealing layer between the kernel (which has few well-documented entry points) and applications. This way, affected parties can hotfix compatibility problems on their own, even if updating is not an option.
Or have I just invented WINE?.. (and maybe LD_PRELOAD)
lock-in = subscription based business model...
Right, that's why Microsoft typically offers a subscription, while most linux companies only charge once per copy.
Google frankly deserve that monopoly
What Google deserves is the market leader position (they are currently in). But not a monopoly. Monopoly means abusing the market and destroying competition.
Google for president? Yes.
Google for tyrant? No thanks.
The "Five Chinese brothers" fairy tale comes to mind. Each brother posessed a supernatural ability, and they all looked alike.
He'll associate Linux with incompatibility, difficulties, and piss poor performance. And he may tell his friends.
Ironically, that's how DOS (and later Windows) started out -- a "quick and dirty" OS on top of a dirt cheap machine. It must have offered exactly the experience you describe compared to Unix, OS/2, Apple, or whatever.
The mass market, however, often chooses the cheapest product of tolerable quality, and not the best one, nor even the best price/quality. And since a linux PC can run a few simple games, web/mail/im, and basic word processing, it *is* of tolerable quality for at least some people.
Works for Microsoft. Might work against them as well.
When the larger OEMs announce that they will require 10 million units in the next quarter with DPM of less than 500, there are only a few companies that can meet that kind of demand.
For this point to be valid it must be prohibitively expensive to launch a new product line totalling to say 1M units (something AMD definitely can ship).
Considering that smaller OEMs do exist (10M is what the largest sell worldwide, right?), I believe this to be false. I'd like to see the numbers though.
$10/unit must be OK for not putting all the eggs in one basket. IANAOEM.
It will happen the same day they all remember ctrl-c is copy, and ctrl-v is paste.
I guess that's unlikely to happen before it's common to paste via middle-click and copy by just selecting the text.
Having been flooded by a defective pipe, I must say that a qualified plumber deserves respect as well. The problem is, you need a plumber's advice or a disaster to tell a good plumber from a bad one.
The same goes for IT.
"Linus was inspired by Minix and used it as the initial development platform for Linux" == Informative
"Linus has copied Minix!!!1111one" == Troll
Consider the difference between serving a cake, and throwing it into someone's face. Sorry for not using a car analogy.
Mod GP back to troll, please.
Fuck, that's like saying slavery was a temporary social imbalance, but "the market works" so we should have waited until slavery was 'naturally' socially unacceptable, or nobody needed cotton & tobacco anymore.
The sad part is that slavery was abandoned *because* it was economically inacceptable. In 1861, Russia has gotten rid of the serfdom (effectively slavery) because the Europeans were beating us with all those factories and inventions and stuff.
The even sadder part is that Microsoft's monopoly (as in ability to dictate to buyers) will not be destroyed by anti-monopoly activity, because you don't usually make soup of a hen that lays golden eggs.
MS's monopoly will be destroyed by market forces (if it will at all). The companies that depend on Microsoft are already leveraging Linux to get better deals. On the other hang, the Penguin barely flies despite being supported by many major players such as Google and IBM.
The not so sad part is that Google might be a slightly better Microsoft than Microsoft, and IBM is told to be a much worse one back in the day.
I have no need for a machine more powerful than mine. I would rather buy a silent one.
I should mention for completeness that two other guys (Church, and dang, I forgot the other one) also proposed systems that were provably equivalent to Turing's machine around the same time, but Turing's was the easiest one to turn into an actual machine.
Andrey Markov was his name, and the algorithm he proposed can be described as a system of several search-and-replace statements that are applied one by one to a string, until one of them matches. Then, the statements are tried against the modified string from the beginning, and so on. Optionally, some statements may cause the "machine" to halt when they first match. If no statement can be applied, the machine also halts.
Of course, this is equivalent to a Turing Machine, as they can emulate each other.
Russian scientists dug the deepest hole on the planet in Siberia, but bottomed out at about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) below the surface.
Last I heard the Kola Peninsula is not in Siberia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
ALT Linux seems to be a Redhat recompile in the style of CentOS with some extra Russian documentation etc.
ALT Linux is based on a community-driven repository called Sisyphus. It was a Mandrake clone long ago, but has evolved into a separate distribution. For instance, it uses an apt/rpm hybrid package management system instead of Mandrake's urpmi.
While it has some drawbacks and is sometimes dependent on the upstream, it's still a valid choice if you need a Russian-speaking community. Not Debian yet, but not an RH clone as well.
The ALTLinux company, on the other hand, is known for holding various linux-related events and generally pushing linux in Russia.
Browser diversity is a pain for web developers. Thanks to Firefox, one can't ignore "alternative" browsers due to commercial implications.
Looks like some people are missing the good old "Best looks in IE 5.0, 800x600" days.
The reaction to Vista's poor reception was demand (in literal, not economical sense) to continue selling XP.
Kicking Linux in was reaction to Microsoft ignoring that demand.
On Monday and Tuesday, the Free! upgrade was only available for Windows Vista (r) (tm) laptops. Hence TFA (I've read it here).
/. to make Dell notice the mistake.)
Probably, this was a mistake, which was corrented around Wednesday. Now, the Free! upgrade is available for all systems, and therefore Ubuntu is cheaper again.
The story hit slashdot too late (I was even thinking about posting it to