actually, more important lockin to avoid is vendor lockin. if your rubyonrails vendor/support company commits some crime, then is prohibited from operating in your region, you are not completely dumped, as you can find another company, who has the exact same access to source etc. of course, it would be inconvinient and induce additional expenses, but let's see what can you do without microsoft...
being unhappy with their everyday work, people get stressed easily, have bad climate in family and tend to develop serious health problems. quite a lot of upper management just have to retire earlier because their health has been silently broken faster than the guy working in construction. there's a limit where bigger wage just detoriates because of the everyday problems, and in the end the total "income" from that promotion is negative - but you usually don't notice that until it is too late.
quite a lot, actually. i've only followed the ones in projects i am interested in, and there hve been some very nice finished features (as well as some disappointing failures).
a quick estimate on things i paid attention to, some 3/4 to 4/5 of projects were completed succesfully. remaining either delivered less than promised or failed completely (student just disappearing...).
i'd expect the mentoring-of-the-mentors, the management of applications, the distribution of cash (remember how many different countries with the most weird laws they have to deal with !) would need quite a lot of work. of course, the details of the coding are in the hands of project leads, but i don't think anybody ever expects a different situation at that level:)
wow, open firmware (even if it is "only" a fw update, as in this case:) ) is one thing i have been wishing for a long time... unfortunately current canon camera line does not feature a compact camera like their s series - is there was one, i'd buy it instantly thanks for the link, it is a really great trend and i hope i will be able to use it someday soon - too bad my older s camera is not supported (well, maybe because it is still the model that had raw support;) ).
there was once a camera line that was compact, had a strong lens cover that slided in front of it, that even had raw and other goodies like all manual controls. unfortunately, the company screwed it up by removing raw from the last model in that line and they also haven't released a new model for a long time. canon, i'm talking about you. give us back the s series we knew and loved:)
it's weird that they look for high bandwidth users only. they could also use low-powered systems to test the approach:) of course, if they want to test how well it scales, that's a different matter.
so it basically seems to be that you are claiming a capability of differing between 320b mp3 and wav (the original cd). well, ask your daughter to do a blind test on you. get some cds, ask her to rip wavs and mp3s with 320b quality. then do a blind test. really, if you will be able to tell the difference on all of them all the time, you will be a unique person;)
don't do this. he would either scream "can't hear you" with both his eyes and ears closed, or fall into depression forever. i mean, don't try to pass arguments into a debate about religion:)
actually, it is relatively ueasy to create an "installer" - either a wrapper script, or something else - that can be clicked on and compiles the software. it might be somewhat more problematic with dependencies (compiling stuff you already mentioned like gcc, make, kernel source), as you'd have different package sets and different installation tools on different distributions - but i'd guess that if you do that for some mainstream distros it should cover most of the people. others would have to only figure the dependency installing themselves:)
for years, linux people have been getting systems either without an os, or with windows, removed it and gopt linux working on those devices, sometimes battling driver issues for some time. eee, for the first time, made a friend of mine buy it to wipe off linux and install windows (he's a hardcore windows guy). and this time he had to hunt for drivers and go through this mess. when we say "tipping point", we often miss these small things sticking out of "normal" flow of events. but it's these things that define and mark the tipping point, which is a bit more like a curve anyway:)
yes, and that episode sucked bigtime:) not because it was computer related or not fit for camera - they blew stuff up and messed with it in a lot of unpracical ways. it was bad because they claimed that it (cdrom blowing up in a cdrom device) couldn't actually happen. well, riiight. when a friend of mine told me that, i was a bit skeptical. 3 years later that happened to me - an original, genuine windows 98 cd blew up un a dell optiplex workstation cdrom (i still remember some details:) ). the cd was not visibly damaged, it was quite new and it had spent most of its life in a jewelcase on a shelf. i opened the device, cleaned it out of all the cd parts and as far as i know, it still works:)
well, there were some buggy cdrom drives (lg ?) that reacted weirdly on some command they should have ignored and some distro actually _could_ brick those computers (mandrake, i think);)
fair way ? i guess people who would more likely throw old eggs and tomatoes at britney and backstreet boys (or whatever is the new thing) would disagree with them or similar crap artists;) getting the money.
hmm. are we talking here about cat/dev/zero >/dev/sda or cat/dev/random (or urandom) ? because while i can clearly see that being possible with zeroes, overwriting with random source doesn't look such a likely candidate for recovery. now, if i had some information i would like to be really gone, i'd probably use/dev/zero and [u]random at least a couple times each. anybody (except the known cia moles:) ) with insight how possible could _that_ be for recovery ?
actually no, they did the tests on people with very little computer expertise to reduce "used to" factor and bring out actual intuitiviness for people more.
as i haven't used kde4 (tried beta1 livecd, but _that_ wasn't quite usable;D ), i can only guess, but you probably are talking about kickoff.
when i first saw it in suse, i didn't like it much. but i decided to try it for some time (few days as i was setting up a new computer for somebody else). and, you know what, i mostly got used to it quite quickly. the applications menu drove me nuts fast, but soon i agreed that really, in 95% or so times i used favoorites (which i, obviously, had customised). additionally, if you know at least something about the app you want to start - just type that in the top textfield. much faster than navigating any menus.
btw, the sliding applications menu was created because of the feelings one gets after having navigated some 3 or more levels down a pop-up menu (aka windows or "old" kde menu), only to accidentally click or move mouse over something incorrectly. F !
now, with the applications menu my main complaint is the sliding, which is quite slow and jerky on machines where xorg doesn't have full support for a video adapter (too new...), so vesa video has to be used.
one thing i hate about kickoff in kde3 - tab switching on mouseover without any configuration options. now that feels gnomish and i wonder why suse has kept it that way for so long. fortunately, it seems the fact also pissed off somebody who can also code, so there's such an option in kde4 already;)
well, it would be weird if they just tucked together all the different acquisitions:) though it isn't impossible - there's a relatively new thing, embedded mysql : http://www.mysql.com/products/embedded/. frankly, i'd welcome such an option aside current java solution.
not to mention that they actually do not learn to use it, just cope with it. 30 pages of manual formatting ? good ! once generated, later manually edited index ? great ! mixed outline, paragraph and manual numberig ? wonderful ! so after some documents have been edited by several such persons, the mess in there is incredible. as a result quite a lot of time is spent hunting weird glitches and manually fixing them over and over again. and in the end there still are problems left. total time spent - a lot more than one day. more like at least one day every week for most emplyees.
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actually, more important lockin to avoid is vendor lockin.
if your rubyonrails vendor/support company commits some crime, then is prohibited from operating in your region, you are not completely dumped, as you can find another company, who has the exact same access to source etc.
of course, it would be inconvinient and induce additional expenses, but let's see what can you do without microsoft...
being unhappy with their everyday work, people get stressed easily, have bad climate in family and tend to develop serious health problems.
quite a lot of upper management just have to retire earlier because their health has been silently broken faster than the guy working in construction.
there's a limit where bigger wage just detoriates because of the everyday problems, and in the end the total "income" from that promotion is negative - but you usually don't notice that until it is too late.
quite a lot, actually.
i've only followed the ones in projects i am interested in, and there hve been some very nice finished features (as well as some disappointing failures).
a quick estimate on things i paid attention to, some 3/4 to 4/5 of projects were completed succesfully. remaining either delivered less than promised or failed completely (student just disappearing...).
i'd expect the mentoring-of-the-mentors, the management of applications, the distribution of cash (remember how many different countries with the most weird laws they have to deal with !) would need quite a lot of work. :)
of course, the details of the coding are in the hands of project leads, but i don't think anybody ever expects a different situation at that level
wow, open firmware (even if it is "only" a fw update, as in this case :) ) is one thing i have been wishing for a long time... ;) ).
unfortunately current canon camera line does not feature a compact camera like their s series - is there was one, i'd buy it instantly
thanks for the link, it is a really great trend and i hope i will be able to use it someday soon - too bad my older s camera is not supported (well, maybe because it is still the model that had raw support
there was once a camera line that was compact, had a strong lens cover that slided in front of it, that even had raw and other goodies like all manual controls. :)
unfortunately, the company screwed it up by removing raw from the last model in that line and they also haven't released a new model for a long time.
canon, i'm talking about you. give us back the s series we knew and loved
the constant bragging and plugging of his own product makes me want to stay away from it as much as possible.
then you haven't been paying attention to http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100.
nnote the 3rd position (and there are several others down the list).
it's weird that they look for high bandwidth users only. they could also use low-powered systems to test the approach :)
of course, if they want to test how well it scales, that's a different matter.
so it basically seems to be that you are claiming a capability of differing between 320b mp3 and wav (the original cd). ;)
well, ask your daughter to do a blind test on you. get some cds, ask her to rip wavs and mp3s with 320b quality. then do a blind test.
really, if you will be able to tell the difference on all of them all the time, you will be a unique person
don't do this. he would either scream "can't hear you" with both his eyes and ears closed, or fall into depression forever. :)
i mean, don't try to pass arguments into a debate about religion
actually, it is relatively ueasy to create an "installer" - either a wrapper script, or something else - that can be clicked on and compiles the software. it might be somewhat more problematic with dependencies (compiling stuff you already mentioned like gcc, make, kernel source), as you'd have different package sets and different installation tools on different distributions - but i'd guess that if you do that for some mainstream distros it should cover most of the people. others would have to only figure the dependency installing themselves :)
for years, linux people have been getting systems either without an os, or with windows, removed it and gopt linux working on those devices, sometimes battling driver issues for some time. :)
eee, for the first time, made a friend of mine buy it to wipe off linux and install windows (he's a hardcore windows guy). and this time he had to hunt for drivers and go through this mess.
when we say "tipping point", we often miss these small things sticking out of "normal" flow of events. but it's these things that define and mark the tipping point, which is a bit more like a curve anyway
well, there's also kubuntu
yes, and that episode sucked bigtime :) :) ). :)
not because it was computer related or not fit for camera - they blew stuff up and messed with it in a lot of unpracical ways.
it was bad because they claimed that it (cdrom blowing up in a cdrom device) couldn't actually happen. well, riiight. when a friend of mine told me that, i was a bit skeptical. 3 years later that happened to me - an original, genuine windows 98 cd blew up un a dell optiplex workstation cdrom (i still remember some details
the cd was not visibly damaged, it was quite new and it had spent most of its life in a jewelcase on a shelf.
i opened the device, cleaned it out of all the cd parts and as far as i know, it still works
well, there were some buggy cdrom drives (lg ?) that reacted weirdly on some command they should have ignored and some distro actually _could_ brick those computers (mandrake, i think) ;)
ah, my memory sometimes works - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39117461,00.htm
ahh, poor windows users :)
though you might be blessed with kate soon (http://kate-editor.org/).
the subject of your comment is the best short answer to this. i think we should send this string to u2 contacts :)
fair way ? i guess people who would more likely throw old eggs and tomatoes at britney and backstreet boys (or whatever is the new thing) would disagree with them or similar crap artists ;) getting the money.
hmm. are we talking here about cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda or cat /dev/random (or urandom) ? /dev/zero and [u]random at least a couple times each. anybody (except the known cia moles :) ) with insight how possible could _that_ be for recovery ?
because while i can clearly see that being possible with zeroes, overwriting with random source doesn't look such a likely candidate for recovery.
now, if i had some information i would like to be really gone, i'd probably use
by far the easiest solution :
;)
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -m limit --limit 5/minute --limit-burst 3 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn --dport 22 -j DROP
and oesn't require you being awake all the time or installing anything on servers
finetune the values to your liking.
actually no, they did the tests on people with very little computer expertise to reduce "used to" factor and bring out actual intuitiviness for people more.
;D ), i can only guess, but you probably are talking about kickoff.
;)
as i haven't used kde4 (tried beta1 livecd, but _that_ wasn't quite usable
when i first saw it in suse, i didn't like it much. but i decided to try it for some time (few days as i was setting up a new computer for somebody else). and, you know what, i mostly got used to it quite quickly. the applications menu drove me nuts fast, but soon i agreed that really, in 95% or so times i used favoorites (which i, obviously, had customised). additionally, if you know at least something about the app you want to start - just type that in the top textfield. much faster than navigating any menus.
btw, the sliding applications menu was created because of the feelings one gets after having navigated some 3 or more levels down a pop-up menu (aka windows or "old" kde menu), only to accidentally click or move mouse over something incorrectly. F !
now, with the applications menu my main complaint is the sliding, which is quite slow and jerky on machines where xorg doesn't have full support for a video adapter (too new...), so vesa video has to be used.
one thing i hate about kickoff in kde3 - tab switching on mouseover without any configuration options. now that feels gnomish and i wonder why suse has kept it that way for so long. fortunately, it seems the fact also pissed off somebody who can also code, so there's such an option in kde4 already
there is a reason why mysql are developing falcon.
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Falcon
well, it would be weird if they just tucked together all the different acquisitions :)
though it isn't impossible - there's a relatively new thing, embedded mysql : http://www.mysql.com/products/embedded/.
frankly, i'd welcome such an option aside current java solution.
not to mention that they actually do not learn to use it, just cope with it.
30 pages of manual formatting ? good ! once generated, later manually edited index ? great !
mixed outline, paragraph and manual numberig ? wonderful !
so after some documents have been edited by several such persons, the mess in there is incredible. as a result quite a lot of time is spent hunting weird glitches and manually fixing them over and over again. and in the end there still are problems left. total time spent - a lot more than one day. more like at least one day every week for most emplyees.