That won't happen. The last mile is a natural monopoly. I believe that localities should own last mile media. Any interested party should be able to rent use of said media.
Laws were made to fully deregulate the last mile in France, works pretty well. Sure the historic operator (France Telecom) often tries to cockblock others, and "mistakes" are made from time to time (such as switching your line back to FT), but that's usually settled fairly easily and they're just not allowed to prevent you from switching away from them, if they try to you have every right to sue them and they have no chance at all to win.
Gives us (up to) 20Mb ADSL for 15/mo, including TV, phone and some other stuff for 30/mo. No quotas.
Granted France's population is noticeably denser than the US', but the point still stands, you can forcibly deregulate the last mile if you care slightly more for the consumers than for the Big Business.
W98 support will be dropped for Firefox 3.0 because it's using Cairo (which does not build on W98
Firefox 3.0 is at least a year in the future, mid-2007 that is. If you haven't switched from W98 nearly 10 years after it's been released, you're asking for trouble no matter what.
Additionally, aren't Win 2000 and Win xp less secure than running an old OS which doesn't have the available OS features which l33t virus people exploit?
The less moral? They explicitely state that search results were filtered out at the very top of each page that should've hold censored results for god's sake. And for non-filtered results they bring the google quality of searches and size of index to China, which is in my book a very good thing indeed.
What's left to the chinese once Google pulls out? Baidu, the chinese-gov-shoes-licker, Yahoo who helps imprison bloggers and MSN whose staff takes down blogs without even a warning mail? Woohoo, i'm sure that google pulling out would help the chinese people a lot... not...
Uh? they weren't denying censoring searches, it was written in plain text (chinese though) on the frigging result pages.
What they were denying was that it was evil, or that "bringing limited informations" was a worse evil than "not bringing any information at all". And I, for one, agreed with google on that one: most chinese don't care that their search results are censored, as long as Google only censors it's chinese-based services and clearly states that the results are filtered it can only bring a better content and a better awareness to the chinese.
If tomorrow my own country decided to start filtering information, I'd be hella glad if Google kept on feeding me with (filtered) search result if it told me that the results were filtered.
s/US convoy/target/, IEDs are not and have never been restricted to Iraq, they've been used throughout the whole second half of the 20th century at least.
The majority of the "problem" people have are related to one thing, flaky networks. If you use SourceSafe over dialup or a connection which isn't reliable, then you can lose connection in mid-write, which will corrupt the database.
And you consider that acceptable? VSS has a very poor working model (the diff/merge blows, so lock/commit is the only useable model), very low performances and is extremely sensitive to network performances and quality. And it requires a load of maintenance, on top of being hard to backup (since VSS uses the server's FS).
SVN on the other hand has much better performances (even though other SCMs like Perforce are even better in that aspect), handles every operation as atomic (which means that losing a connection mid-commit merely means you'll have to retry from start), has not corrupted any repository that I know of, uses a diff/merge model by default, versions both files and directory, makes tags&branches easy as pie, has dozens of clients for every platform (instead of being locked in the one crappy SourceSafe client) and the DB-centric repository allows easy backup (SVN even handles hot backups like a charm) and restores.
Seriously, saying that VSS can work "remarquably well" mostly shows that you haven't tried other SCMs, VSS is extremely bad.
Nothing, especially since LAMP really isn't restricted to PHP and MySQL (using a combination of Python or Ruby and PostgreSQL on lighttpd is usually considered a LAMP solution too). This article is merely fud and shameless self-promotion, and if that wasn't enough the wonderful admins running the website require that cookies are enabled (cookies? for reading a freaking blog article? oooh yeah)
As I said, don't "push changes", not right now. Start by using it privately to ease your own work and keep track or your own changes, then, when people start whinning that others have overwritten their files or whatever see if you can pull them from your private SVN repository, show them how useful it is and how useful it may be for them, show them that it's just plain easy (e.g. use TortoiseSVN).
I think you'd have an easier time using SVN or CVS between your machines than SCP, and you'd get the revision control for free. (I'm serious here, it may sound like overkill but it really isn't)
I suggest you start by committing everything into SVN and using it for yourself (like commit other people's changes as "misc other people changes" and then commit your own changes with real commit messages), if only to prevent you from being annoyed by the issues it brings.
TortoiseSVN. Seriously, try it, it's extremely good, fairly stable, and features a high integration to Windows Explorer (with nice icons to boot) which means that your user don't have to learn a whole new software: they're working in a familiar environement with just some more items in their contextual menu.
Precision to my previous post: when I say that I haven't managed to get them integrated into the workflow, it's not in the technical sense of the term (installing Trac is fairly trivial) but in the hierarchy-related one, management isn't interrested in changing it's habbits or in seeing the dev teams change their habits.
While I haven't managed to get them integrated into the workflow yet (working on it), I find tools such as Trac extremely interresting and full of potential: Trac integrates a wiki (for base documentation) with a bugtracker (bugzilla-like) and a Subversion repository while linking all of them together (you can use the SVN commit comments to link a commit to a bug, track them from the wiki, generate timelines,...)
And important document should never ever be stored in proprietary binary formats: you can't decrypt them yourself, can't change bugs, can't do anything.
I mean, how the hell can you take this thing seriously when on the second page it greets you with:
All of the drives are nearly the same compact size, so you shouldn't have problems fitting them in a small form factor PC.
Wow, seriously, wow, thanks ExtremeTech for remembering us that these 5.25" devices use the same standard 5.25" form factor that's been used since, like, the release of the first CD player for PC, we couldn't have thought about that ourselves !
(and compact? don't make me laugh, anyone who's ever built a PC knows that a standard 5.25" CD/DVD drive is nowhere near compact)
The rest of the article doesn't disappoint of course, with very few (4) devices tested, no word of cross-platform compatibility, on burn reliability (data corruption), on sound measurements and hella crappy diagrams...
Thing is that Sony brought it upon themselves, after moving from "high quality ultimate robustness" to "yet another cheap-o electronics macufacturer", after badly screwing it's long time customers (e.g. SoE/EQ), after screwing with it's occasional customers (rootkit fiasco) I don't see how lack of love or even hatred towards Sony can be surprising. And I didn't even talk about the outright marketroid lies here.
They did everything they could to be hated, especially by the tech-savvy (potential) customers of which Slashdot is a pretty good representation, how surprising is it that they actually are hated?
Actually no, the reports I've seen by devs on dev kits placed the Xbox360 as the best dev kits, the Wii dev kits as good with bonus points for being extremely close to GC's devkits (which means that adaptation is extremely fast for the teams which had previously worked on GC games) and that PS3 devkits were utterly and completely shitty and not helped by the inherently complex architecture of the PS3 (read: PS3 is already complex enough that the devs wouldn't want a devkit making it even harder to dev on it)
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Chris Taylor of Total Annihilation fame (1998) soon coming back with Supreme Commander, and Will Wright (SimCity, The Sims) with Spore
Yeah except that the Core Xbox360 doesn't have anything close to the number of good games the PS2 has.
Laws were made to fully deregulate the last mile in France, works pretty well. Sure the historic operator (France Telecom) often tries to cockblock others, and "mistakes" are made from time to time (such as switching your line back to FT), but that's usually settled fairly easily and they're just not allowed to prevent you from switching away from them, if they try to you have every right to sue them and they have no chance at all to win.
Gives us (up to) 20Mb ADSL for 15/mo, including TV, phone and some other stuff for 30/mo. No quotas.
Granted France's population is noticeably denser than the US', but the point still stands, you can forcibly deregulate the last mile if you care slightly more for the consumers than for the Big Business.
W98 support will be dropped for Firefox 3.0 because it's using Cairo (which does not build on W98
Firefox 3.0 is at least a year in the future, mid-2007 that is. If you haven't switched from W98 nearly 10 years after it's been released, you're asking for trouble no matter what.
W98 is a piece of crap security wise.
I'm not, but i'd like to know what i'm supposed to see here.
The less moral? They explicitely state that search results were filtered out at the very top of each page that should've hold censored results for god's sake. And for non-filtered results they bring the google quality of searches and size of index to China, which is in my book a very good thing indeed.
What's left to the chinese once Google pulls out? Baidu, the chinese-gov-shoes-licker, Yahoo who helps imprison bloggers and MSN whose staff takes down blogs without even a warning mail? Woohoo, i'm sure that google pulling out would help the chinese people a lot... not...
Uh? they weren't denying censoring searches, it was written in plain text (chinese though) on the frigging result pages.
What they were denying was that it was evil, or that "bringing limited informations" was a worse evil than "not bringing any information at all". And I, for one, agreed with google on that one: most chinese don't care that their search results are censored, as long as Google only censors it's chinese-based services and clearly states that the results are filtered it can only bring a better content and a better awareness to the chinese.
If tomorrow my own country decided to start filtering information, I'd be hella glad if Google kept on feeding me with (filtered) search result if it told me that the results were filtered.
s/US convoy/target/, IEDs are not and have never been restricted to Iraq, they've been used throughout the whole second half of the 20th century at least.
And you consider that acceptable? VSS has a very poor working model (the diff/merge blows, so lock/commit is the only useable model), very low performances and is extremely sensitive to network performances and quality. And it requires a load of maintenance, on top of being hard to backup (since VSS uses the server's FS).
SVN on the other hand has much better performances (even though other SCMs like Perforce are even better in that aspect), handles every operation as atomic (which means that losing a connection mid-commit merely means you'll have to retry from start), has not corrupted any repository that I know of, uses a diff/merge model by default, versions both files and directory, makes tags&branches easy as pie, has dozens of clients for every platform (instead of being locked in the one crappy SourceSafe client) and the DB-centric repository allows easy backup (SVN even handles hot backups like a charm) and restores.
Seriously, saying that VSS can work "remarquably well" mostly shows that you haven't tried other SCMs, VSS is extremely bad.
i don't know about others, but I sure would like those 5 minutes of my life back.
Another old saying: old sayings are always wrong.
P is usually taken as "scriPting language" or "Language starting with P" such as Perl, Python or Ruby.
Nothing, especially since LAMP really isn't restricted to PHP and MySQL (using a combination of Python or Ruby and PostgreSQL on lighttpd is usually considered a LAMP solution too). This article is merely fud and shameless self-promotion, and if that wasn't enough the wonderful admins running the website require that cookies are enabled (cookies? for reading a freaking blog article? oooh yeah)
As I said, don't "push changes", not right now. Start by using it privately to ease your own work and keep track or your own changes, then, when people start whinning that others have overwritten their files or whatever see if you can pull them from your private SVN repository, show them how useful it is and how useful it may be for them, show them that it's just plain easy (e.g. use TortoiseSVN).
I think you'd have an easier time using SVN or CVS between your machines than SCP, and you'd get the revision control for free. (I'm serious here, it may sound like overkill but it really isn't)
Ohoh? Where could i find more infos about that?
I suggest you start by committing everything into SVN and using it for yourself (like commit other people's changes as "misc other people changes" and then commit your own changes with real commit messages), if only to prevent you from being annoyed by the issues it brings.
Then you can start evangelizing.
TortoiseSVN. Seriously, try it, it's extremely good, fairly stable, and features a high integration to Windows Explorer (with nice icons to boot) which means that your user don't have to learn a whole new software: they're working in a familiar environement with just some more items in their contextual menu.
Uh, no, latex embeds semantics into the document, then uses classes & packages to translate these semantics to visual displays.
Precision to my previous post: when I say that I haven't managed to get them integrated into the workflow, it's not in the technical sense of the term (installing Trac is fairly trivial) but in the hierarchy-related one, management isn't interrested in changing it's habbits or in seeing the dev teams change their habits.
While I haven't managed to get them integrated into the workflow yet (working on it), I find tools such as Trac extremely interresting and full of potential: Trac integrates a wiki (for base documentation) with a bugtracker (bugzilla-like) and a Subversion repository while linking all of them together (you can use the SVN commit comments to link a commit to a bug, track them from the wiki, generate timelines, ...)
And important document should never ever be stored in proprietary binary formats: you can't decrypt them yourself, can't change bugs, can't do anything.
I mean, how the hell can you take this thing seriously when on the second page it greets you with:
Wow, seriously, wow, thanks ExtremeTech for remembering us that these 5.25" devices use the same standard 5.25" form factor that's been used since, like, the release of the first CD player for PC, we couldn't have thought about that ourselves !
(and compact? don't make me laugh, anyone who's ever built a PC knows that a standard 5.25" CD/DVD drive is nowhere near compact)
The rest of the article doesn't disappoint of course, with very few (4) devices tested, no word of cross-platform compatibility, on burn reliability (data corruption), on sound measurements and hella crappy diagrams...
Thing is that Sony brought it upon themselves, after moving from "high quality ultimate robustness" to "yet another cheap-o electronics macufacturer", after badly screwing it's long time customers (e.g. SoE/EQ), after screwing with it's occasional customers (rootkit fiasco) I don't see how lack of love or even hatred towards Sony can be surprising. And I didn't even talk about the outright marketroid lies here.
They did everything they could to be hated, especially by the tech-savvy (potential) customers of which Slashdot is a pretty good representation, how surprising is it that they actually are hated?
Actually no, the reports I've seen by devs on dev kits placed the Xbox360 as the best dev kits, the Wii dev kits as good with bonus points for being extremely close to GC's devkits (which means that adaptation is extremely fast for the teams which had previously worked on GC games) and that PS3 devkits were utterly and completely shitty and not helped by the inherently complex architecture of the PS3 (read: PS3 is already complex enough that the devs wouldn't want a devkit making it even harder to dev on it)
AFAIK the name's changed, it's not the revolution anymore it's the Wii.