No. But very few of them are entirely lacking any empathy at all for their fellow man, few of them would kill if it server their overall interests. Wheras corporations are, and would. Which is what makes them scary.
That's because it ships with BSOD disabled. It can still freeze or reboot though, and I've found it will. Rarely enough to be tolerable, and nowhere near as bad as old versions, but it definitely happens, roughly once a month or so. (My linux box hasn't crashed since christmas, and I've been using it more).
No. Virtual memory is (presumably) the memory space. Which makes it seem odd that it can have a bigger page file than it can map, but then reiserfs supports bigger files than filesystems, presumably it's for the future.
Plenty of windows - IE, OE, media player, scandisk, explorer - didn't exist until 95, so I wouldn't call something from 3.1 relatively new. And I distinctly remember there being 4 games in 2.0.
It's the sig and he presumably keeps changing it, since it's fine for me. This is the reason slashdot introduced the -- delimiter. Just ignore the sig.
Try konqueror. It uses a kpdf backend, which is much faster, but will also let you switch to the netscape plugin if you need something not supported in kpdf.
If you make passwords the users can't remember they will just write them down. If they're pronounceable that helps, but only so much. Lists like this help, but ultimately you just have to tell your users to use the best passwords they can and hope that's good enough. Making them use passwords too "secure" will hurt you more.
The problem is too many people do jump on every bandwagon. I think that's what the author is warning of. AOP is not a panacea and shouldn't be seen as one.
You get funny, but you'd be surprised how many people seem to think using OOP suddenly makes everything good, and anything that doesn't use it must be bad.
No, you can't do that, because you're often infringing the copyright if you "rewrite" the code having seen it. Patents are another issue, patented extensions are horrible, but other than that it's no easier for MS to implement a gcc extension than for gcc to implement an MS one, and we shouldn't see gcc extensions as any better than non-patented extensions from anyone else.
What I want is gui and stuff as fast as C, because I want to be able to write my performance-critical stuff in python, because I prefer writing python. I know I can load hand-optimized assembly or C modules from python and use them, but I'd prefer to be able to just use python code and have it run the same speed.
If it's something simply implemented in c, like gcc's safe gets(), then it could usefully be straight copied. And if you're saying making them implement it independently is ok, how's that different from propriety MS extensions - why can't the gcc people copy them?
The patent holder only owns it in countries where the patent is valid. In the EU I'm pretty sure there's no software or algorithm patents, so EU people can use this super-optimization method whether or not there's a patent on it.
In that case nor does MS coding their language extensions under a propriety license make those extensions propriety. If MS adds an extension to their compiler they will have to explain what it does for developers to use it, meaning it's just as easy to add support for an MS extension to GCC as for MS to add support for a GCC extension. After all, it's simply a matter of coding it up, right?
The kernel hackers aren't the ones who need to hear Tridgell's side of this, they know about it. But the community at large, normal users, do need to hear that Tridgell was in the right, from a big name, therefore ESR would do good. However I agree he's probably too political to get involved.
Yes, many people pointed it out. But others just sided with Linus out of respect for him. Tridge did nothing wrong, Linus was nasty about what he did all the same, and there is so much hero-worship of Linus we needed someone else important to stand up for Tridge's side, especially since Tridge apparently couldn't himself. I don't think Perens was shit stiring, I think he thought Linus might come to his senses, and even if not it's important that the OSS community understands Tridge was in the right, which they wouldn't if the only big name in the debate was rabidly against him.
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No. But very few of them are entirely lacking any empathy at all for their fellow man, few of them would kill if it server their overall interests. Wheras corporations are, and would. Which is what makes them scary.
That's because it ships with BSOD disabled. It can still freeze or reboot though, and I've found it will. Rarely enough to be tolerable, and nowhere near as bad as old versions, but it definitely happens, roughly once a month or so. (My linux box hasn't crashed since christmas, and I've been using it more).
No. Virtual memory is (presumably) the memory space. Which makes it seem odd that it can have a bigger page file than it can map, but then reiserfs supports bigger files than filesystems, presumably it's for the future.
Lol, +1 insightful. Mods on crack or what?
Plenty of windows - IE, OE, media player, scandisk, explorer - didn't exist until 95, so I wouldn't call something from 3.1 relatively new. And I distinctly remember there being 4 games in 2.0.
It's the sig and he presumably keeps changing it, since it's fine for me. This is the reason slashdot introduced the -- delimiter. Just ignore the sig.
Try konqueror. It uses a kpdf backend, which is much faster, but will also let you switch to the netscape plugin if you need something not supported in kpdf.
Nope. They publish them. Konqueror can render them fine itself (just uses kpdfpart). Why can't IE?
And uh COMPLETELY OS INDEPENDENT. That's why it runs fine on Linux, BSD, OSX or even Windows. Try again.
If you make passwords the users can't remember they will just write them down. If they're pronounceable that helps, but only so much. Lists like this help, but ultimately you just have to tell your users to use the best passwords they can and hope that's good enough. Making them use passwords too "secure" will hurt you more.
The problem is too many people do jump on every bandwagon. I think that's what the author is warning of. AOP is not a panacea and shouldn't be seen as one.
You get funny, but you'd be surprised how many people seem to think using OOP suddenly makes everything good, and anything that doesn't use it must be bad.
TIFF can also be LZW-compressed, the same compression used for GIF, which does make a significant impact on the filesize.
No, you can't do that, because you're often infringing the copyright if you "rewrite" the code having seen it. Patents are another issue, patented extensions are horrible, but other than that it's no easier for MS to implement a gcc extension than for gcc to implement an MS one, and we shouldn't see gcc extensions as any better than non-patented extensions from anyone else.
What I want is gui and stuff as fast as C, because I want to be able to write my performance-critical stuff in python, because I prefer writing python. I know I can load hand-optimized assembly or C modules from python and use them, but I'd prefer to be able to just use python code and have it run the same speed.
He's friends with the PM, took a fall for him once, and thus knows he's safe.
Support for BeOS and even QNX (!) makes up for it imo.
If it's something simply implemented in c, like gcc's safe gets(), then it could usefully be straight copied. And if you're saying making them implement it independently is ok, how's that different from propriety MS extensions - why can't the gcc people copy them?
The patent holder only owns it in countries where the patent is valid. In the EU I'm pretty sure there's no software or algorithm patents, so EU people can use this super-optimization method whether or not there's a patent on it.
In that case nor does MS coding their language extensions under a propriety license make those extensions propriety. If MS adds an extension to their compiler they will have to explain what it does for developers to use it, meaning it's just as easy to add support for an MS extension to GCC as for MS to add support for a GCC extension. After all, it's simply a matter of coding it up, right?
Absolutely. As your sibling post says, there's far too much hero-worship of Linus.
The kernel hackers aren't the ones who need to hear Tridgell's side of this, they know about it. But the community at large, normal users, do need to hear that Tridgell was in the right, from a big name, therefore ESR would do good. However I agree he's probably too political to get involved.
Yes, many people pointed it out. But others just sided with Linus out of respect for him. Tridge did nothing wrong, Linus was nasty about what he did all the same, and there is so much hero-worship of Linus we needed someone else important to stand up for Tridge's side, especially since Tridge apparently couldn't himself. I don't think Perens was shit stiring, I think he thought Linus might come to his senses, and even if not it's important that the OSS community understands Tridge was in the right, which they wouldn't if the only big name in the debate was rabidly against him.
Regardless of that, he's an important public figure devoted to open source.
Yes, I know, I live near it. But how come it used to be the A45?