True, but in the case of Samba what you would expect it to do is not share anything - I don't want to be sharing my hard disks unless there's a good reason, thank you very much. And the client part does work without any configuration, at least on my distro.
Finally, SWAT means you just have to fill in a simple form rather than editing a conf file, unless you have a very weird setup. It's not zero work, but it's pretty close.
No, you're missing the point. If you get a mail from the Korean government which *says* it is from the Korean government, then the originator's IP Address will match and the mail will get through to you. However, when the program tries to query the Korean government server to find out whether a message which says it is from the Korean government is actually from them, the military people running said server get rather tense. And the most likely thing their server will do is send no response at all, regardless of whether the message is actually from them.
Multiple channels will not change that. Producers will simply use tons of dynamic compression on all four channels. Why? Because as soon as one does, anyone who doesn't will be derided as "weedy".
What we really need to do is replace wav-style sampling with something that has no maximum volume, or has a limit on the average, not maximum, volume. That way you wouldn't have to do tons of range compression to make a song sound loud.
Or we could try and teach joe public to use a preamp.
That's the difference. A DDOS by nature only works if you can get enough people to participate. So this will not result in the destruction of the net, just of the sites that everyone hates. Which I think is not so many.
My apologies, I've seen it in enough respectable sources I assumed it was true. Anyway, I think there is at least one good reason to at least consider a Saturn V or Saturn-V derived rocket for a mars shot for one simple reason: it works, we know it works, it is quite simply the only *proven* way to get 100 tonnes into LEO in one shot. And if not, the soviet Energia (hey, that's almost on topic) rocket had a planned upgrade path which could put 175 tonnes into LEO just by using more of the same boosters, I think that's the way if you're really serious about it.
Of course, I could go to mars on an arianne 5. If I get old and no one's done it yet, I think I might.
The GPL is only there because of the mess of current copyright law. If tomorrow you were allowed to share everything, I would gladly give up the GPL. You're playing both sides just as much as we are.
Like it or not, KaZaA was in the right there, at least if you accept propriety software can ever be right. They state clearly that they will install spyware (OK they don't use the term but they make it pretty clear what it does) and that you need it to run the program, and that you're not allowed to redistribute without it. KaZaA Lite was violating copyright and they knew it, and even said basically "this program is illegal, do not use it" on their site.
You forget that it won't be in stable until Sarge is released as stable, at the moment it's just in testing. Expect the actual release just after Duke Nukem Forever.
IME python scripts are far easier to fix when you find a problem in them six months later than perl ones. And I learnt python faster than I learnt perl, despite knowing bash. YMMV of course.
Try it. If nothing else the experience will make you a better perl programmer. I found the same when I tried perl. Personally, I prefer python for a simple reason: code intelligibility. You can go back to python programs months later and understand them immediately. The absence of braces is helpful too, means you don't have to move off the home keys when coding, and it's one less thing to type, but unlike many perl abbreviations you actually improve readability by removing them - the eye follows the indentation, not the braces, so it's better when the interpreter does too.
The reason I love python is that it's a language that doesn't get in your way. If you want to do OOP in it, you can do OOP in it, but you don't have to make everything an object like in java. Ditto for functional programming or anything you want to do, really. Another one: it's the largest language for which there isn't an obfustucated coding contest. And the reason for this is simple: the syntax is such that python programs make sense. I can go back to python programs I wrote six months ago and never ever think "Hey, what was I doing there?". The indentation might look like it would get in the way, but in fact it just saves typing braces, because you'd indent like that for style anyway. Last one: with python you can do Qt the way it was meant to be done, without messing with moc or declaring slots or anything. Try writing a simple gui program in python and Qt, you won't want to go back.
Answer? Nothing about computers is 'intuitive' it's all learned behaviour. The fact that people actually whine and bitch about something that small makes me laugh, expecially now that in OS X the Trash turns into the Eject icon when you grab and move a removable disk.
No, some of it is intuitive, because computer systems are designed around metaphors. The idea of "emptying the trash" makes very little sense in a computing concept, but it's there because it makes it understandable. And yes, it is intuitive, because you can understand what it means without even having seen a computer. Why do you think the term "desktop" is used? Not because it's an intrinsic property of the computer, because it makes it more intuitive for humans using it. Wheras dropping a disk in the trash does not seem the logical way to take it out of your computer.
But it's not the same thing. Both will give you a dialog saying "Hey, you messed that drive up" if you yank it out at the wrong time. Mac OS seems to be giving you a dialog saying "Hey, if you'd done that some other time, you might have messed that drive up" if you yank it out at the right time. Yes, that's consistency, but personally I'd prefer my computer only complain when I actually cause an error, not when I do something that could have caused an error.
NASA is always short of cash, and I think we could probably learn a lot more by sending up 4 replacement hubbles and using them than trying a robotic repair mission that leaves us without any telescope at all.
It's there for emphasis, but I think that's a visual thing. It adds to the whole reading experience, without being directly informational. And I don't think it would translate well into speech synth etc. If it would, then why can't the synth interpret it in the way the user wants? After all, they probably have a better idea of what the blind equivalent of bold is than me.
A slashdotter is not a fair comparison, because we don't represent the average person. I'll put a random coworker, or, if you think that's unfair because of them having used MS word, a random non-computer-user (not that many of them around, but hey) on OOo Writer against one on any TeX setup you choose, any day, and I'm confident they'll be more productive.
That word processor page is nonsense. Integration is good in a computer system. Yes, there are cases where style and content should be separated, although not as many as people seem to think, which is incidentally why the whole css idea is also stupid. If I want to make part of my document bold, I want to make part of my document bold. I don't want to define a class of things which are empasised, and therefore bold, and then declare that this word is part of that class. I just want to make it bold.
I want my text editor to be able to do basic formatting just like I want it to be able to add up a row of numbers - something you'd want me to use a separate spreadsheet for. Does it replace a dedicated program? No. But is it good enough for enough cases that it makes me more productive? Yes.
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Finally, SWAT means you just have to fill in a simple form rather than editing a conf file, unless you have a very weird setup. It's not zero work, but it's pretty close.
No, you're missing the point. If you get a mail from the Korean government which *says* it is from the Korean government, then the originator's IP Address will match and the mail will get through to you. However, when the program tries to query the Korean government server to find out whether a message which says it is from the Korean government is actually from them, the military people running said server get rather tense. And the most likely thing their server will do is send no response at all, regardless of whether the message is actually from them.
I wonder if it was a put-up job by the Spammer's Alliance to show us all that DDoSing is really a bad thing.
The rss feed was at http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf last time I checked.
What we really need to do is replace wav-style sampling with something that has no maximum volume, or has a limit on the average, not maximum, volume. That way you wouldn't have to do tons of range compression to make a song sound loud.
Or we could try and teach joe public to use a preamp.
That's the difference. A DDOS by nature only works if you can get enough people to participate. So this will not result in the destruction of the net, just of the sites that everyone hates. Which I think is not so many.
Of course, I could go to mars on an arianne 5. If I get old and no one's done it yet, I think I might.
(tinfoil hat time): Of course, if they still had them we'd know whether it could have really got to the moon
The GPL is only there because of the mess of current copyright law. If tomorrow you were allowed to share everything, I would gladly give up the GPL. You're playing both sides just as much as we are.
Like it or not, KaZaA was in the right there, at least if you accept propriety software can ever be right. They state clearly that they will install spyware (OK they don't use the term but they make it pretty clear what it does) and that you need it to run the program, and that you're not allowed to redistribute without it. KaZaA Lite was violating copyright and they knew it, and even said basically "this program is illegal, do not use it" on their site.
You forget that it won't be in stable until Sarge is released as stable, at the moment it's just in testing. Expect the actual release just after Duke Nukem Forever.
IME python scripts are far easier to fix when you find a problem in them six months later than perl ones. And I learnt python faster than I learnt perl, despite knowing bash. YMMV of course.
Try it. If nothing else the experience will make you a better perl programmer. I found the same when I tried perl. Personally, I prefer python for a simple reason: code intelligibility. You can go back to python programs months later and understand them immediately. The absence of braces is helpful too, means you don't have to move off the home keys when coding, and it's one less thing to type, but unlike many perl abbreviations you actually improve readability by removing them - the eye follows the indentation, not the braces, so it's better when the interpreter does too.
The reason I love python is that it's a language that doesn't get in your way. If you want to do OOP in it, you can do OOP in it, but you don't have to make everything an object like in java. Ditto for functional programming or anything you want to do, really. Another one: it's the largest language for which there isn't an obfustucated coding contest. And the reason for this is simple: the syntax is such that python programs make sense. I can go back to python programs I wrote six months ago and never ever think "Hey, what was I doing there?". The indentation might look like it would get in the way, but in fact it just saves typing braces, because you'd indent like that for style anyway.
Last one: with python you can do Qt the way it was meant to be done, without messing with moc or declaring slots or anything. Try writing a simple gui program in python and Qt, you won't want to go back.
It was the recent story that in Korea, email is only for old people.
Don't you mean "In Korea, only old people make these jokes"?
No, some of it is intuitive, because computer systems are designed around metaphors. The idea of "emptying the trash" makes very little sense in a computing concept, but it's there because it makes it understandable. And yes, it is intuitive, because you can understand what it means without even having seen a computer. Why do you think the term "desktop" is used? Not because it's an intrinsic property of the computer, because it makes it more intuitive for humans using it. Wheras dropping a disk in the trash does not seem the logical way to take it out of your computer.
But it's not the same thing. Both will give you a dialog saying "Hey, you messed that drive up" if you yank it out at the wrong time. Mac OS seems to be giving you a dialog saying "Hey, if you'd done that some other time, you might have messed that drive up" if you yank it out at the right time. Yes, that's consistency, but personally I'd prefer my computer only complain when I actually cause an error, not when I do something that could have caused an error.
A 4-drive raid0 array on a PCI-X card.
NASA is always short of cash, and I think we could probably learn a lot more by sending up 4 replacement hubbles and using them than trying a robotic repair mission that leaves us without any telescope at all.
If I'm wrong, correct me.
It's there for emphasis, but I think that's a visual thing. It adds to the whole reading experience, without being directly informational. And I don't think it would translate well into speech synth etc. If it would, then why can't the synth interpret it in the way the user wants? After all, they probably have a better idea of what the blind equivalent of bold is than me.
A slashdotter is not a fair comparison, because we don't represent the average person. I'll put a random coworker, or, if you think that's unfair because of them having used MS word, a random non-computer-user (not that many of them around, but hey) on OOo Writer against one on any TeX setup you choose, any day, and I'm confident they'll be more productive.
I want my text editor to be able to do basic formatting just like I want it to be able to add up a row of numbers - something you'd want me to use a separate spreadsheet for. Does it replace a dedicated program? No. But is it good enough for enough cases that it makes me more productive? Yes.
I *think* Suse uses the Ximian builds of OOo, which have better integration but less applications.