I think your forgetting about the hundreds (thousands?) of billions the US has in debt for various reasons, including the Bush wars.
Canada has debts too, because they decided at some point to develop infrastructures and improve life quality of the citizens. Now they are trying to pay it off.
Click-n-Run technology makes it easy to install other software
Taken from Linspire Cons:
Hard to install other software
I've seen quite a few other examples like that. They mention MacOSX's
firewall is activated by default in the summary and in the description
later on they say it's not. Mandrake has nearly no cons, and is not the
winner. They mention it's "Hard to install other software" (notice the
copy-paste)... I think they don't know anything about urpmi...
Don't take this "report" to your boss. It's not serious.
Click-n-Run technology makes it easy to install other software
Taken from Linspire Cons:
Hard to install other software
I've seen quite a few other examples like that. They mention MacOSX's firewall is activated by default in the summary and in the description later on they say it's not. Mandrake has nearly no cons, and is not the winner. They mention it's "Hard to install other software" (notice the copy-paste)... I think they don't know anything about urpmi...
He actually says that since Source is using DirectX, it can easily be ported to XBox. I think the guy never actually ave a shot at such a port. The author is probably more of a gamer wanting to develop games than a developper.
I have to agree with you: the article is not serious.
Actually, using the MySQL server is free unless you make an installer which installs your application and the database server. If you just tell you client to install a MySQL server, there is no problem.
It becomes more complicated if you use the MySQL libraries. If your application is compiled with them, it either has to be liscenced or GPL. If you can manage not to package and distribute the GPL applications and libraries, there is no problem.
repopulate your product page for a new product WITHOUT reloading the whole page.
So now people can't bookmark specific products
It's also a great way to prevent Google from indexing your content. Seriously, no company with an online catalog can afford not being indexed on Google. I really don't see how this technology can be good for company websites. I see it as just as good as Flash. It's for eye candy and for other flash developpers.
I can see it as useful in a web application to handle forms or perform complex tasks more effectively, but really not on a public web page.
Seriously, this is not a new concept. I worked on a similar system years ago, until I realised it had no use in the real world. Content needs to be indexed. Users want their back button and reload their page with the reload button.
Actually, Apache Cocoon provides a framework based on XSLT that allows pregeneration of pages. I might be wrong, I never used it, but that's what it looks like.
Actually, using XHTML 1.0 Strict and making sure it passes the validator is the first thing. CSS can do all the eye-candy stuff. Due to a few bugs in IE, you will still have to use tables for a few layout elements.
SVG is part of those nice things that will arrive very soon.
XML and XSL-T is a nice combo too for dynamic data.
The thing is that Linux is not UNIX. Ever saw GNU/Linux? GNU stands for GNU's Not UNIX. End of story.
I don't really think the problem with ATI not releasing drivers for Linux has anything to do with complexity. I would simply blame it on administration. On the long term, it's not really a problem because everyone buying a desktop for linux knows that ATI drivers are worthless and buying nVidia or a generic card is a better alternative. As Linux market share grows, ATI will either catch up or be left behind.
My major problem with UML actually is that the tools to design it are a pain to use. I never saw one that would feel as easy and natural to use as pen and paper is to draw structures. I do plan my structures, patterns, class names, responsibilities before starting to code, but I just hate using UML tools.
Reverse engineering tools are nice because they are quick to use but the results are either too details or not precise enough. Relations are usually association, extend or implement. UML has a whole lot more details and those tools seem to ignore them unless you set them manually, which is what you wanted to avoid in the first place.
I remember working on a project where we made the entire structure before writing a single line of code in UML. We made it all as a team and all agreed on it. The first guy to actually started codiing it totally ignored what we made. Great! We simply wasted time!
As a side note: I'd be very glad to see a UML editor that is actually aware that paper exists. I just love the fact that Rational Rose has no print preview and won't tell you where the page ends. Want to print? Guess and adapt until it looks fine. As a plus, it has no image export. This is really what you get for a few thousand dollars application.
I guess that just depends on the model. If yuou get the cheap 1k Dell laptop, it's probably the case. If you reach prices of the Mac ones (around 3k right?), it really won't be an issue.
I doubt they looked up all the code. They probably only made statistics to compare the amount of bugs based on what has been reported and archives.
As a side note, at 20 bugs per 1000 lines, the 40 millions lines of Windows would contain 800000 bugs. I'm not a M$ fan, but this sounds a little excessive.
I like the comment about the "real office". Most managers simply don't understand that the fact that it's Free and costs nothing means that it's crap. I heard many people thinking that OpenOffice.org is nothing more than an office clone. It really isn't. It's much better.
Money is an argument but it shouldn't be the only one used. The added-value features have much more weight in the balance than money (at least for north american governments). It's quite easy to sell Mozilla or Firefox to a manager as a browser, as long as no applications depend on IE.
The learning curve of OpenOffice.org might cause problems to most of the staff. The point is to get the permission to use it and let those who want to use it. Since it has no license fee, it can be install on all machines anyway, right? Then once in a while, send them an sxw file by "mistake", just to make sure they remember it exists. Eventually, they will get used to it.
As for the official lobby part, there are quite a few people in Quebec on that task. A website with studies opened. Canadian departement of defense is also looking into it, but I'm not allowed to give links. It's just a matter of time, but since this is about bureaucracy, it might take long.
Well, if they had found a way to compress any file to something as small as a MD5 hash uniquely, there would be no need for broadband. A 100 mb files has a whole lot more possibilities than a short string, no maths required. Collisions are obvious. SHA1 has even more possibilities, but it's still not enough.
So, why is this news? I guess someone wanted massive traffic on his website to get more people to see ads.
I would go with OpenGroupware.org since it's actually compatible with multiple clients. It can be used with Evlution, Moz Calendar, Outlook and probably more. It also has a web interface.
If you do so, you end up having your staff running burn-outs, complaining and get their wives to send you hate letters.
Beyond like 45 hours, my body REALLY begins to oppose to any more work by getting distracted by anything. Actually, it triggers my arm to reload slashdot every minute hoping to get something else to do.
Article Myth: Linux doesn't do P2P networking.
Fact: Linux just doesn't have a Net Neighbourhood/Places GUI. There is nothing that requires Linux (or BSD) to have to have a domain controller. In the past week, I've provided support in online forums where the problem is stated that on Windows they can't see the other Windows box - because they are using Network Places, which relies on NetBIOS and can take up to 45 min for a computer to show up in. This is the reality of the userbase - GUI.
Well, I have it KDE 3.3... and I think it has been there for a while.
Myth: Printing sucks
Fact: No argument - it sucks. No central tie-in into the system so all programs use the same printing config. I shouldn't have to setup CUPS, and then setup each and every program I want to use to use CUPS.
Once CUPS is configured, all my apps use it. I had some hard times getting it to work under Gentoo, but it was out of the box using Fedora (it even has a friendly interface to modify configurations)
CUPS is acting like a server. There should be no problem using it remotely...
Myth: Laptop support is non-existant
Fact: There's sites dedicated to it; as long as the hardware is available, for the most part there is no trouble booting linux on a laptop. Rather, the article says that there's just not enough wifi support in laptops...
It really depends on the laptop. If you buy a super-cheap compaq laptop, you WILL have hardware problems and incompatibilities.
As for wireless, it's a vendor problem. It's not easy to guess how their hardware works and make drivers for them. They should be the ones distributing the drivers anyway. Linux has everything needed to get wireless to work on supported cards and it's very well integrated in most desktop environments.
It's legal to be a slut, but it's illegal to be a whore? That makes no sense. It's illegal to sell something that it's perfectly alright to give away for free.
It's all about self-esteem and respect.
We'd take all of the profits out of drug dealing if we decriminalized them.
Drugs are lucrative for those who sell them, but they have strong dependencies and ruin lives. They are dangerous for those who take them and for those who live around them.
That's the american way of life: watch your belly and let others die. Following Mr. Bush's politics, no treaty against child pornography, prostitution or drug dealing should be signed: after all, those things create jobs.
It just feels like a very lame excuse to avoid responsibilities to me. Actually, I don't see how Kyoto kills jobs. I always thought opening a lab to search for new solutions actually created jobs.
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I think your forgetting about the hundreds (thousands?) of billions the US has in debt for various reasons, including the Bush wars.
Canada has debts too, because they decided at some point to develop infrastructures and improve life quality of the citizens. Now they are trying to pay it off.
Did all those bombs bring you inner peace?
Taken from Linspire Pros:
Taken from Linspire Cons:
I've seen quite a few other examples like that. They mention MacOSX's firewall is activated by default in the summary and in the description later on they say it's not. Mandrake has nearly no cons, and is not the winner. They mention it's "Hard to install other software" (notice the copy-paste)... I think they don't know anything about urpmi...
Don't take this "report" to your boss. It's not serious.
Taken from Linspire Pros:
Taken from Linspire Cons:
I've seen quite a few other examples like that. They mention MacOSX's firewall is activated by default in the summary and in the description later on they say it's not. Mandrake has nearly no cons, and is not the winner. They mention it's "Hard to install other software" (notice the copy-paste)... I think they don't know anything about urpmi...
Don't take this "report" to your boss.
He actually says that since Source is using DirectX, it can easily be ported to XBox. I think the guy never actually ave a shot at such a port. The author is probably more of a gamer wanting to develop games than a developper.
I have to agree with you: the article is not serious.
Actually, using the MySQL server is free unless you make an installer which installs your application and the database server. If you just tell you client to install a MySQL server, there is no problem.
It becomes more complicated if you use the MySQL libraries. If your application is compiled with them, it either has to be liscenced or GPL. If you can manage not to package and distribute the GPL applications and libraries, there is no problem.
Actually, now that you mentionned it, I'm surprised no one actually claimed patent rights on file > Open...
I would guess not. Most of those weird-named technologies are only useful on multi-processor systems and servers where CPU cycles are really an issue.
If I had more cycles I could probably do more posting on Slashdot...
Sun really seems to like the Open-.org naming convention. They are probably trying to oppose Steve Jobs' iNaming.
It's also a great way to prevent Google from indexing your content. Seriously, no company with an online catalog can afford not being indexed on Google. I really don't see how this technology can be good for company websites. I see it as just as good as Flash. It's for eye candy and for other flash developpers.
I can see it as useful in a web application to handle forms or perform complex tasks more effectively, but really not on a public web page.
Seriously, this is not a new concept. I worked on a similar system years ago, until I realised it had no use in the real world. Content needs to be indexed. Users want their back button and reload their page with the reload button.
Actually, Apache Cocoon provides a framework based on XSLT that allows pregeneration of pages. I might be wrong, I never used it, but that's what it looks like.
You mean JavaScript right?
Actually, using XHTML 1.0 Strict and making sure it passes the validator is the first thing. CSS can do all the eye-candy stuff. Due to a few bugs in IE, you will still have to use tables for a few layout elements.
SVG is part of those nice things that will arrive very soon.
XML and XSL-T is a nice combo too for dynamic data.
The thing is that Linux is not UNIX. Ever saw GNU/Linux? GNU stands for GNU's Not UNIX. End of story.
I don't really think the problem with ATI not releasing drivers for Linux has anything to do with complexity. I would simply blame it on administration. On the long term, it's not really a problem because everyone buying a desktop for linux knows that ATI drivers are worthless and buying nVidia or a generic card is a better alternative. As Linux market share grows, ATI will either catch up or be left behind.
My major problem with UML actually is that the tools to design it are a pain to use. I never saw one that would feel as easy and natural to use as pen and paper is to draw structures. I do plan my structures, patterns, class names, responsibilities before starting to code, but I just hate using UML tools.
Reverse engineering tools are nice because they are quick to use but the results are either too details or not precise enough. Relations are usually association, extend or implement. UML has a whole lot more details and those tools seem to ignore them unless you set them manually, which is what you wanted to avoid in the first place.
I remember working on a project where we made the entire structure before writing a single line of code in UML. We made it all as a team and all agreed on it. The first guy to actually started codiing it totally ignored what we made. Great! We simply wasted time!
As a side note: I'd be very glad to see a UML editor that is actually aware that paper exists. I just love the fact that Rational Rose has no print preview and won't tell you where the page ends. Want to print? Guess and adapt until it looks fine. As a plus, it has no image export. This is really what you get for a few thousand dollars application.
I guess that just depends on the model. If yuou get the cheap 1k Dell laptop, it's probably the case. If you reach prices of the Mac ones (around 3k right?), it really won't be an issue.
I doubt they looked up all the code. They probably only made statistics to compare the amount of bugs based on what has been reported and archives.
As a side note, at 20 bugs per 1000 lines, the 40 millions lines of Windows would contain 800000 bugs. I'm not a M$ fan, but this sounds a little excessive.
I like the comment about the "real office". Most managers simply don't understand that the fact that it's Free and costs nothing means that it's crap. I heard many people thinking that OpenOffice.org is nothing more than an office clone. It really isn't. It's much better.
Money is an argument but it shouldn't be the only one used. The added-value features have much more weight in the balance than money (at least for north american governments). It's quite easy to sell Mozilla or Firefox to a manager as a browser, as long as no applications depend on IE.
The learning curve of OpenOffice.org might cause problems to most of the staff. The point is to get the permission to use it and let those who want to use it. Since it has no license fee, it can be install on all machines anyway, right? Then once in a while, send them an sxw file by "mistake", just to make sure they remember it exists. Eventually, they will get used to it.
As for the official lobby part, there are quite a few people in Quebec on that task. A website with studies opened. Canadian departement of defense is also looking into it, but I'm not allowed to give links. It's just a matter of time, but since this is about bureaucracy, it might take long.
Well, if they had found a way to compress any file to something as small as a MD5 hash uniquely, there would be no need for broadband. A 100 mb files has a whole lot more possibilities than a short string, no maths required. Collisions are obvious. SHA1 has even more possibilities, but it's still not enough.
So, why is this news? I guess someone wanted massive traffic on his website to get more people to see ads.
I agree to that! (man, I need mod points!)
I would go with OpenGroupware.org since it's actually compatible with multiple clients. It can be used with Evlution, Moz Calendar, Outlook and probably more. It also has a web interface.
Having Freedom to choose is always nice ;)
Actually, there is a native extension that does database abstraction. There is also an other one coming up for PHP 5 (probably 5.1) called PDO.
If you do so, you end up having your staff running burn-outs, complaining and get their wives to send you hate letters.
Beyond like 45 hours, my body REALLY begins to oppose to any more work by getting distracted by anything. Actually, it triggers my arm to reload slashdot every minute hoping to get something else to do.
Well, I have it KDE 3.3... and I think it has been there for a while.
Myth: Printing sucks Fact: No argument - it sucks. No central tie-in into the system so all programs use the same printing config. I shouldn't have to setup CUPS, and then setup each and every program I want to use to use CUPS.Once CUPS is configured, all my apps use it. I had some hard times getting it to work under Gentoo, but it was out of the box using Fedora (it even has a friendly interface to modify configurations)
CUPS is acting like a server. There should be no problem using it remotely...
Myth: Laptop support is non-existant Fact: There's sites dedicated to it; as long as the hardware is available, for the most part there is no trouble booting linux on a laptop. Rather, the article says that there's just not enough wifi support in laptops...It really depends on the laptop. If you buy a super-cheap compaq laptop, you WILL have hardware problems and incompatibilities.
As for wireless, it's a vendor problem. It's not easy to guess how their hardware works and make drivers for them. They should be the ones distributing the drivers anyway. Linux has everything needed to get wireless to work on supported cards and it's very well integrated in most desktop environments.
It's all about self-esteem and respect.
We'd take all of the profits out of drug dealing if we decriminalized them.Drugs are lucrative for those who sell them, but they have strong dependencies and ruin lives. They are dangerous for those who take them and for those who live around them.
That's the american way of life: watch your belly and let others die. Following Mr. Bush's politics, no treaty against child pornography, prostitution or drug dealing should be signed: after all, those things create jobs.
It just feels like a very lame excuse to avoid responsibilities to me. Actually, I don't see how Kyoto kills jobs. I always thought opening a lab to search for new solutions actually created jobs.
Anyone actually think this is serious?