Since when is a power failure a bug? I had thought a bug is an unintended behavior in software/hardware.
So you saying power failure is an intended hardware behaviour ? Well, if someone willingly pulls the plug it certainly is.
A bug is a bug, no matter if hw/sw. True, computer cases would be a "bit" heavier with bundled small, 203 minute UPS's, but it would save people from a lot of wtf's:)
Just how good I feel since my work machine is set to go automaticically in hibernation when after switching on battery the power goes below 5%. No lost work. Good.
The blackmesa case was made 9-10 months ago. And while it's a very nice and cool case indeed (and he has some other cool ones on the stock), and it rightfully deserves the/. public attention, reporting it like this kind of news here... ridiculous.
So your main argument is, that mySQL is "simple". Well, pretty weak, may I mention. Could've said harsher, but I really don't want to disdain anyone. Thing is, it is "simple" for you so you base your whole argument on mySQL being simpler.
Whenever I tried looking at PostgreSQL (not recently, see above) it always seemed much more complicated and not as friendly. Well, I have something that has been working very, very well for me for a long while now, so why put myself through all that hassle?
Again, you say you tried looking at PostgreSQL, and you found it less "friendly". Well, you obiously never tried to configure let's say Oracle9i under linux other than RHEL and let's say compiling PHP with Oracle support.
Then you also mention the "out-of-the-box" issue. PostgreSQL is perfectly good to use for "simple" tasks and databases without any additional tweaking. Well, "simple" in this case can mean many hundreds of thousands of records as well.
It's just a fairly relative issue, which you also obviously fail to substantially comprehend.
writing code for an obviously inferior tool that relatively few (alleged) people would use. Jan, like so many of the slashdot groupthink, needs to get a life or at least an XP laptop
Another flameish troll BS-writing anonymous. Since you already saw and followed your light to the end of the tunnel, why don't you let us poor stupid others find our own ?
Your one pointed to an XP laptop with MS's Office. Thank God, this is not the only way.
Just pack your ignorance and get yourself lost.
As for KDE/GNOME integration of OO.org: I welcome it enthusiastically. Every step to make it slinker, better, faster, more = a good step.
Seriously ? Can't see what all this has to do with evolution. This is no evolution, in no sense of the word. How will this effect real evolution ? In no way. You can create hybrids to use up the organs they develop, but that's no evolution, that's... I don't know, butchery ?
I may be harsh, and I know lives can be saved, and I don't oppose substantially. But I can't see how evolution came into the picture.
A country whose population prefers communism now fascism instead of freedom.
One would think so much ignorance should hurt really bad. You really have to think large masses of people just loved enjoyed and embraced many decades (over 40 years alone in eastern europe, let alone elsewhere) of this stuff. And you really have to think breaking out of it is just a matter of a fingersnap or what.
I lived through one of such revolutions which resulted in breaking a communist regime, it wasn't fun getting there, neither getting along with it you know. You just take your darn freedom for darn granted.
Correct. And 1 more thing: Redhat and OSDL being also members, what would be the prudent course of action ? 1). RH and OSDL quit the association, following Nokia, 2). they conjugate (yes, in _that_ sense) with MS in this warm hearted association ?
After successfully buying out and dissecting competion for decades, maybe this will be the new MS way to break FOSS associations. Pay themselves into every board and make them go away.
[...]avorite book of the year? Excel Hacks, which edged out Head First Servlets & JSP (#3), a Grand Theft Auto Strategy Guide (#5) and[...]
Excel Hacks as #1 ?:) Oh come on, get a life, really:) For me it would be The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) (2004 edition, that is).
Yeah, I know, now you will be on me to have a life myself:) - Sorry, better a looser on LOTR than anything else on ExcelHacks (wow, we should name a dope variant like this:) ).
I never stop getting surprised how totally narrow people think they have the broaest understanding. Troll me if you wish, but chanting about things like reiser (never mentioning others like xfs, a.s.o.), not merged security features, but never mentioning the easily usable ones (pam.d, xinetd, iptables, grsecurty, selinux, efs, (t)cfs, won't even go on), then simply stating the kernel being bad and wrong because being hacked by a basement hacker, which is nothing but ridiculous.
I very much like *BSDs, FBSD being the one I actually also used. I am aware of many things which can make a *BSD distro favorable, but what you do up there, just makes me remember our early-days fights about the best distro:) and I just have to smile:)
So thanks for having brought up some of me nice memories, but other than that... well, not much else.
You're absolutely not right in this. The patent does _not_ only apply for Basic. Each claim stands on its own. Just the first one is a huge disgusting joke in its own. But let's see the 4th one:
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler comprises a scanner, a parser, an analyzer and an executable-generator.
Hope you get the point. This plainly means the IsNot operator is patented for every and each language out there that has a compiler with a scanner-parser-anaylzer-ex.generator.
And that IsNot just Basic.
As for stupid distasteful ideas, we should just patent the use of the latin alphanumeric characters used in computer languages which have compilers and co., but just on this planet. Maybe that would make MS move onto orbital stations, which could easily become targets for terrorists. - Oh, wait terrorists usually want to harm us, not to help...:P
Besides, terminal server has been out for years, if that's what you need.
No, it's not:) Windows "developing" (as in evolution:) ) pretty pricey terminal services solutions in the last decade won't make me switch my ways of thinking about the capabilities of *nix/Linux network solutions.
much faster and seamlessly than most remote X window logins
Unfortunately (i.e. for Windows) that's not all someone wants from remote sessions. What I want e.g. is to allow many users concurrently logged on and using the machine through different X sessions, happily and joyfuly, and without needing to pay for a bag of licenses for being able to accomplish all this.
I'm not surprised they want to call that feature by the same name
Just a name won't buy them fame. What already has brought that fame was the possibility to have graphical truly multiuser remote sessions long before MS started to think about adding network support.
The bottom line : like the new online search, Microsoft have made a very good effort to get back in the game.
Considering how their beta search is keeping up now, they should be working a bit harder. But that's not the point. Thing is, I don't really like the parts of the stories which sound like "Then, on a sunny day's morning when our stock began to rise, Microsoft bought up some solution and suddenly became our competitor. That's when we started loosing grip."
In spite of this, I really think this will turn out to be something good. Don't get me wrong, I'm not rooting for MS here (never would). I just think this will make people like the good fellas at Google work harder and provide us greater solutions. Good competition will never hurt us (i.e. users).
I just hope that this indeed will be "good" competition. I also hope that integrating MS desktop and web solutions into Windows (next logical step from MS as we know them well) won't make others sue them, bacause that would make the others loose money and loose focus on development, thus making MS happy.
In my not so humble opinion, you really have a good point here. A Great point. I'll explain what I mean.
In recent years the main argument of Micro$oft (note to slashzilla berzerkers: I'm not willing to let go of the dollar sign from that word) was Open Source kills innovation. Now if one takes a look at Micro$oft's recent actions and methods of "development" you can see a very clear outline: they wait for someone else out there in the industry to come out with a very good thing, then buy the idea, the implementation, the whole company, whatever, and voila, what you get is innovation in MS products.
Bad thing ? Generally could be regarded as "no", but if you just think what they do with their stuff (i.e. integrate into Windows and pay anybody else's claims off the planet) could just as well be considered bad.
That is why having a single large unlimited budget company with business policies like MS has a dark side too.
This sounded so really ridiculous, I had to read it again. Then, it seemed even more so:) I laughed so loud I hope the neighbors didn't think I went nuts:D
So really, this is something a regular sane fellas would do with their iPods:D Oh, come on:)
You even can grab a dead cat and pull it with a piece of rope, but it won't run, even if you mew in the process:D
... to say [...]information technology literacy. The test is supposed to measure the ability of students to use software to solve[...]
Probably it's just the little IT engineer devil from inside me, but determining IT literacy by measuring ability to use sw... wow, this really has to be the 21st century:P The idea is I could gather some questions for undergrad IT students which all would come from the field of information technology problems and it would show IT literacy without ever needing any software to test their whatever skills on.
Most certainly I know that practice counts as much (or more) as theory in such tests, but practice doesn't just and always mean the ability to use some sw.
Without that capability, what would you do if a hostile nation launched placed such weapons in orbit?
Yes, and that explaines it all, right ? Such weapons shall be deployed just-in-case ? This just smells as the cold war.
To me this seems again the same story as when Uncle Sam objected on E.U.&co. deploying their own GPS system too, stating that would provide U.S.'s possible enemies with possible unwanted tactical advantage in case of war.
What if those bloody europeans suddenly got to their senses and started to look upon the U.S. as offensive - on their rights, freedoms, daily lives ? Oh, well, that would just prove them "right" (well, what an obfuscated use of the word).
If we're talking solid state disks (in which direction in my opinion this is pointing to), I'd rather see something like this in my household:) As to the size of such a "vibrating" storage solution... well, if I don't see it, I don't mind, but I hope it won't cost too much, it won't need more power, it will have higher lifespan, and at least two of these seems highly unlikely (just pick:)
All in all, just let them boil a bit, let's see what comes out. Yup, one more thing, hopefully one will be able to cary home a >100gb version of such a thing in one's hands:)
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Since when is a power failure a bug? I had thought a bug is an unintended behavior in software/hardware.
:)
So you saying power failure is an intended hardware behaviour ? Well, if someone willingly pulls the plug it certainly is.
A bug is a bug, no matter if hw/sw. True, computer cases would be a "bit" heavier with bundled small, 203 minute UPS's, but it would save people from a lot of wtf's
Just how good I feel since my work machine is set to go automaticically in hibernation when after switching on battery the power goes below 5%. No lost work. Good.
The blackmesa case was made 9-10 months ago. And while it's a very nice and cool case indeed (and he has some other cool ones on the stock), and it rightfully deserves the /. public attention, reporting it like this kind of news here... ridiculous.
So your main argument is, that mySQL is "simple". Well, pretty weak, may I mention. Could've said harsher, but I really don't want to disdain anyone. Thing is, it is "simple" for you so you base your whole argument on mySQL being simpler.
Whenever I tried looking at PostgreSQL (not recently, see above) it always seemed much more complicated and not as friendly. Well, I have something that has been working very, very well for me for a long while now, so why put myself through all that hassle?
Again, you say you tried looking at PostgreSQL, and you found it less "friendly". Well, you obiously never tried to configure let's say Oracle9i under linux other than RHEL and let's say compiling PHP with Oracle support.
Then you also mention the "out-of-the-box" issue. PostgreSQL is perfectly good to use for "simple" tasks and databases without any additional tweaking. Well, "simple" in this case can mean many hundreds of thousands of records as well.
It's just a fairly relative issue, which you also obviously fail to substantially comprehend.
[...]education-related patent for Providing instructional feedback to a user, which the software giant says[...]
/. has already expressed the opinion most os uf have regarding the matter: crapheap.
And I thought parents and teachers were the ones to provide instructional feedback to the us... uhm, sorry child.
As regarding MS & patenting: nothing to say here,
writing code for an obviously inferior tool that relatively few (alleged) people would use. Jan, like so many of the slashdot groupthink, needs to get a life or at least an XP laptop
Another flameish troll BS-writing anonymous. Since you already saw and followed your light to the end of the tunnel, why don't you let us poor stupid others find our own ?
Your one pointed to an XP laptop with MS's Office. Thank God, this is not the only way.
Just pack your ignorance and get yourself lost.
As for KDE/GNOME integration of OO.org: I welcome it enthusiastically. Every step to make it slinker, better, faster, more = a good step.
How will this affect evolution?
... I don't know, butchery ?
Seriously ? Can't see what all this has to do with evolution. This is no evolution, in no sense of the word. How will this effect real evolution ? In no way. You can create hybrids to use up the organs they develop, but that's no evolution, that's
I may be harsh, and I know lives can be saved, and I don't oppose substantially. But I can't see how evolution came into the picture.
A country whose population prefers communism now fascism instead of freedom.
One would think so much ignorance should hurt really bad. You really have to think large masses of people just loved enjoyed and embraced many decades (over 40 years alone in eastern europe, let alone elsewhere) of this stuff. And you really have to think breaking out of it is just a matter of a fingersnap or what.
I lived through one of such revolutions which resulted in breaking a communist regime, it wasn't fun getting there, neither getting along with it you know. You just take your darn freedom for darn granted.
Correct. And 1 more thing: Redhat and OSDL being also members, what would be the prudent course of action ? 1). RH and OSDL quit the association, following Nokia, 2). they conjugate (yes, in _that_ sense) with MS in this warm hearted association ?
After successfully buying out and dissecting competion for decades, maybe this will be the new MS way to break FOSS associations. Pay themselves into every board and make them go away.
[...]avorite book of the year? Excel Hacks, which edged out Head First Servlets & JSP (#3), a Grand Theft Auto Strategy Guide (#5) and[...]
:) Oh come on, get a life, really :) For me it would be The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition) (2004 edition, that is).
:) - Sorry, better a looser on LOTR than anything else on ExcelHacks (wow, we should name a dope variant like this :) ).
Excel Hacks as #1 ?
Yeah, I know, now you will be on me to have a life myself
From the feature list of Slack10: [...]the Linux 2.4.26 kernel (with Linux 2.6.7 as an alternate choice in /testing)[...]
I never stop getting surprised how totally narrow people think they have the broaest understanding. Troll me if you wish, but chanting about things like reiser (never mentioning others like xfs, a.s.o.), not merged security features, but never mentioning the easily usable ones (pam.d, xinetd, iptables, grsecurty, selinux, efs, (t)cfs, won't even go on), then simply stating the kernel being bad and wrong because being hacked by a basement hacker, which is nothing but ridiculous.
:) and I just have to smile :)
I very much like *BSDs, FBSD being the one I actually also used. I am aware of many things which can make a *BSD distro favorable, but what you do up there, just makes me remember our early-days fights about the best distro
So thanks for having brought up some of me nice memories, but other than that... well, not much else.
You're absolutely not right in this. The patent does _not_ only apply for Basic. Each claim stands on its own. Just the first one is a huge disgusting joke in its own. But let's see the 4th one:
:P
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler comprises a scanner, a parser, an analyzer and an executable-generator.
Hope you get the point. This plainly means the IsNot operator is patented for every and each language out there that has a compiler with a scanner-parser-anaylzer-ex.generator.
And that IsNot just Basic.
As for stupid distasteful ideas, we should just patent the use of the latin alphanumeric characters used in computer languages which have compilers and co., but just on this planet. Maybe that would make MS move onto orbital stations, which could easily become targets for terrorists. - Oh, wait terrorists usually want to harm us, not to help...
Besides, terminal server has been out for years, if that's what you need.
:) Windows "developing" (as in evolution :) ) pretty pricey terminal services solutions in the last decade won't make me switch my ways of thinking about the capabilities of *nix/Linux network solutions.
No, it's not
much faster and seamlessly than most remote X window logins
Unfortunately (i.e. for Windows) that's not all someone wants from remote sessions. What I want e.g. is to allow many users concurrently logged on and using the machine through different X sessions, happily and joyfuly, and without needing to pay for a bag of licenses for being able to accomplish all this.
I'm not surprised they want to call that feature by the same name
Just a name won't buy them fame. What already has brought that fame was the possibility to have graphical truly multiuser remote sessions long before MS started to think about adding network support.
The bottom line : like the new online search, Microsoft have made a very good effort to get back in the game.
Considering how their beta search is keeping up now, they should be working a bit harder. But that's not the point. Thing is, I don't really like the parts of the stories which sound like "Then, on a sunny day's morning when our stock began to rise, Microsoft bought up some solution and suddenly became our competitor. That's when we started loosing grip."
In spite of this, I really think this will turn out to be something good. Don't get me wrong, I'm not rooting for MS here (never would). I just think this will make people like the good fellas at Google work harder and provide us greater solutions. Good competition will never hurt us (i.e. users).
I just hope that this indeed will be "good" competition. I also hope that integrating MS desktop and web solutions into Windows (next logical step from MS as we know them well) won't make others sue them, bacause that would make the others loose money and loose focus on development, thus making MS happy.
In my not so humble opinion, you really have a good point here. A Great point. I'll explain what I mean.
In recent years the main argument of Micro$oft (note to slashzilla berzerkers: I'm not willing to let go of the dollar sign from that word) was Open Source kills innovation. Now if one takes a look at Micro$oft's recent actions and methods of "development" you can see a very clear outline: they wait for someone else out there in the industry to come out with a very good thing, then buy the idea, the implementation, the whole company, whatever, and voila, what you get is innovation in MS products.
Bad thing ? Generally could be regarded as "no", but if you just think what they do with their stuff (i.e. integrate into Windows and pay anybody else's claims off the planet) could just as well be considered bad.
That is why having a single large unlimited budget company with business policies like MS has a dark side too.
in case you wish to read the source
ignorance is bliss
Maybe because A9 is nothimg more than another "engine" which is based on Google's results. Hardly one that should be included in such tests.
Microsoft Australia's managing director, come with no knowledge of what Firefox has to offer as he admits not even installing or using Firefox.
:)
Hey, this is actually good ! Just think about what MS will do when they will start seeing Firefox as real competitors. Gee, I shiver already
This sounded so really ridiculous, I had to read it again. Then, it seemed even more so :) I laughed so loud I hope the neighbors didn't think I went nuts :D
:D Oh, come on :)
:D
So really, this is something a regular sane fellas would do with their iPods
You even can grab a dead cat and pull it with a piece of rope, but it won't run, even if you mew in the process
... to say [...]information technology literacy. The test is supposed to measure the ability of students to use software to solve[...]
:P The idea is I could gather some questions for undergrad IT students which all would come from the field of information technology problems and it would show IT literacy without ever needing any software to test their whatever skills on.
Probably it's just the little IT engineer devil from inside me, but determining IT literacy by measuring ability to use sw... wow, this really has to be the 21st century
Most certainly I know that practice counts as much (or more) as theory in such tests, but practice doesn't just and always mean the ability to use some sw.
Without that capability, what would you do if a hostile nation launched placed such weapons in orbit?
Yes, and that explaines it all, right ? Such weapons shall be deployed just-in-case ? This just smells as the cold war.
To me this seems again the same story as when Uncle Sam objected on E.U.&co. deploying their own GPS system too, stating that would provide U.S.'s possible enemies with possible unwanted tactical advantage in case of war.
What if those bloody europeans suddenly got to their senses and started to look upon the U.S. as offensive - on their rights, freedoms, daily lives ? Oh, well, that would just prove them "right" (well, what an obfuscated use of the word).
If we're talking solid state disks (in which direction in my opinion this is pointing to), I'd rather see something like this in my household :) As to the size of such a "vibrating" storage solution... well, if I don't see it, I don't mind, but I hope it won't cost too much, it won't need more power, it will have higher lifespan, and at least two of these seems highly unlikely (just pick :)
:)
All in all, just let them boil a bit, let's see what comes out. Yup, one more thing, hopefully one will be able to cary home a >100gb version of such a thing in one's hands
[...]popularity and market share of Microsoft's products that are responsible [...] the problem is largely with C/C++ [...]
Yup, that's 2 bullshits in one sentence.