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It's the "complete" part of that word that is the key one. I dare say that no software is ever going to be "perfect"... or, for that matter, "complete" in the ultimate sense of the word. However, I'm guessing they have a list of functionality that they want to implement before they declare it to be FFmpeg 1.0; fulfilling their list of desired functionality makes it "complete."
Acar worked under Kundra, Obama's pick to coordinate federal computer systems. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs would not say whether the White House knew the investigation was under way when it named Kundra last week, but called the case "a serious matter."
Acar, a 40-year-old native of Turkey, had a $127,468-a-year position purchasing the city's computer equipment and lining up contract workers for numerous city agencies.
Well, it sure sounds like you got upset, whether or not we expected you to.;)
Meh, not sure what the stereotype mention is doing for the argument.
Omniscience from department heads, no. But whether or not he really knew about it is a rather important question at this point, is it not? No, he's not guilty now, and probably won't be, but we should probably make sure. Which it looks like the FBI is doing. And until they conclusively say something about it, I'm not going to defend him and say he's innocent and didn't know about it. Who knows?
Besides, if you want to pick on the "feeling" thing, what is this doing in the article itself (and the summary):
And if Kundra was aware of what was going on at his former offices or concerned about the raid, it wasn't evident during his speech at FOSE 2009, a trade show focused on government IT.
First, he's not even concerned about the raid of his former office? Seems he could at least be concerned about it and say he didn't know about it. Second, how is his speech an indicator of his innocence or guiltiness? Yay, he gave a morale-boosting rally speech that didn't mention his former office being raided. Must be innocent!... ?
Again, he probably is and I don't know if he is or not, but the article sure is defending him at this point... to a somewhat silly extent, even saying his speech and his apparent non-concern about the FBI raid... I mean, if I ran a company of thousands of workers and the FBI raided it and found corruption, I'd at LEAST be upset, especially if I was innocent. I don't understand the article's point, I guess.
But he didn't say the biggest GUI differences, even (and his name is "Guimard" hehe). He said the biggest differences. Either he was actually referring to the visual GUI aspect, or... something else, but that "something else" is what is a little weird. There's a lot of differences between XP and Ubuntu, perhaps the least of which are GUI. Which is what you are trying to say, I think, in saying the biggest GUI difference is icons/games. He didn't make that distinction between GUI and Other differences. At least, not in the quote in the article (I looked, summary has the complete article's quote, looks like).
As far as illiterate people switching, it seems the more computer illiterate people are, the easier of a time switching. I assume it's because they're used to nothing, and every time they sit down to a computer, it's new. My parents had little trouble going from XP to openSuSE... since they didn't know really what a file or directory was in the first place, it's not hard to switch...
Anyway, I'm a fan of Linux and think it has great uses in offices that just need to do office type things, no special programs, etc. I'm just saying that there are differences (GOOD ones, too!) that he could have mentioned. Like security or reliability. You'd think the French police would be interested in those.:)
Exactly. If he was just another low-level person in the office and didn't know about it, ok. And I can understand having employees and upper management isn't really responsible, especially dependent on the size of the office... but it should at least be thoroughly investigated, and should raise flags. Not "Oh my goodness, he is a sting operation person!" but at least a "We should check and make sure he's innocent before proceeding." Wanting to prove innocence != assuming guilty; it's assuming innocence but not ignorantly.
While new republican CIO John Doe gave a speech here this morning on his vision for the US government's use of technology, the FBI conducted a search of the Texas's IT offices â" where Doe worked until last week â" and arrested an employee and another person who works for an outsourcing vendor, say reports. There was no indication that Doe was connected in any way to the FBI's raid, which was part of a bribery sting operation. And if Doe was aware of what was going on at his former offices or concerned about the raid, it wasn't evident during his speech at FOSE 2009, a trade show focused on government IT. The FBI would not comment on the reports. President George Bush last week appointed Doe to be the federal government's first official CIO.
Change anything? IMO, it would have. "Look at the corruption, George Bush is now appointing a CIO of the entire USA from a corrupt Texas IT department that is involved in bribery and sting operations!"
Oh. But this is Obama's administration. Who cares if several appointments of his weren't honest about their taxes (oh, sorry, "forgot" about certain items. Admittedly, in some cases, it did look innocent; but sometimes, not so much, especially for someone that you'd think would know these sorts of things...), that his CIO worked in an IT department that had bribery sting deals going on, or whatever...
Eh. I know Bush administration wasn't good and that most all government is corrupt, blah blah. But that doesn't mean I should just ignore this because it happens to everyone or whatever. If the place he worked has people getting busted for bribery or whatever, then investigation should continue; no, not because she is guilty until proven innocent, but because I think government officials should be held to a pretty high standard. Especially since, in the last 100 years, they've tended to be dishonest.
The two biggest differences are the icons and the games.
Man alive. If that's what this person thinks are the "biggest differences"... I don't know, that just sounds really strange. This wasn't a very technical person, I take it, saying this. Even from a pure user's perspective, there's more that is different than "icons." Like, the entire GUI is different. I know, basic functionality is mostly the same, and you still click things to get them to open, but there's still a lot more different. Good things, too, I'm not trying to say the switch was a bad idea (like security and updates). But it slightly boggles my mind that someone thinks the "biggest difference between XP and Ubuntu are icons and games." It's almost an insult to Ubuntu!;) Except I like XP, too, but whatever.
I am expecting responses saying that this was from the "user's" perspective... probably true; I still think there's more different than icons and games. Package management would be a major difference from XP, for one thing. More so than icons.
Another big thing in games are sound effects and music. Which usually don't come very free (at least to get really good, immersive music/effects). Then again, a lot of amateur composers (me!) are willing to do stuff pretty cheaply, but it's not going to sound like the LA Phil playing a soundtrack.:)
Electronic music is a cheaper route, as well, but genre/style of music has a huge impact on the style/feel of the game. I can't imagine playing Baldur's Gate with electronic music as its soundtrack:(
That probably depends on the application(s) running (presuming some sort of server application). Of course, a competent admin in that situation would hopefully choose a suitable filesystem, which may not be ext4 if the delay remains too high.
I don't know what the performance difference is from a "home user" perspective between ext3 and ext4, but if it isn't really noticeable, then why not stay with a more reliable delay time? If most users wouldn't be able to notice the performance increase, it might be better to cater towards reliability, not performance, in that situation.
Admittedly, this is all out of my hat, since I haven't done any performance tests (have you? I'd be interested in hearing first-hand experience of performance increases... will have to look online, too...)
I'll take "I didn't lose my data" over "ext4 runs 1.5x faster than ext3," thank you. What use is performance to me if I have to be absolutely certain that it won't crash, or I lose my (in my very high performance filesystem) data?
Also, ext4 is toted as having additional reliability checks to keep up with scalability, etc... not less reliable at expense of performance.
Reliability
As file systems scale to the massive sizes possible with ext4, greater reliability concerns will certainly follow. Ext4 includes numerous self-protection and self-healing mechanisms to address this.
The Foxit and Adobe bugs are unrelated, however, except for the fact that they are both in the code that parses JBIG2 images
I fail to see how that is "unrelated." Yeah, it wasn't the "same code" but it was the same code section - the code that parses the images. I'm guessing Foxit uses different code, so obviously it's not going to be the same code and thus not the exact same vulnerability...
"unrelated" and "completely different" seem rather strong words to use. Oh well.:)
I suppose the answer to bullying is playing violent video games... (not necessarily your POV, but seems to be the POV of a lot of slashdotters...)
Or maybe it's a character issue perhaps springing from kids being told they should be allowed to do whatever the want to do, parents being told that they just need to "grow out of it" and that disciplining them is a bad thing and causes them to be social outcasts and causes them to be violent when they grow older...
Yeah, because most thugs are above stealing knives if they can't afford them.
This always comes up with gun laws, etc. The criminals aren't the ones that have difficulty getting guns and they don't care if they are breaking the law by carrying them. "Banning" guns or "banning" knives or any of that sort of activity (taxing, etc) only harms those that want to abide by the law in the first place, not those that are TRYING to break it (kill, stab, steal, whatever).
Hmmm. On the other hand, what about teaching kids that violence (shooting, knifing, whatever) is not the answer? [Violent] video games don't do that.
Yes, it decreases their free time, but not necessarily constructively. I can think of a lot of other activities. You may as well say that TV prevents crime or something, and that taxing TV usage would increase crime? But there's the question of whether or not TV does something to the mind that increases this or that behavior when not watching TV.
Same with video games. What behaviors are actually influenced by video game usage. What real habits are or can be formed virtually. What happens when they lose their job and don't have the money to play the video games anymore...
So, if there is any correlation, it's a negative one: more video games, less knife crime.
Interestingly, that seems to be the opposite side of the correlation != causation arguments that come up on slashdot every time violent video games come up. I know you're not concluding this in your post - but a lot of posts do tend to say "correlation != causation, and besides, violent video games help reduce actual violence..."
Can't have it both ways, it always seems to be the same kinds of studies (whether psychological, statistical, correlation types, etc) that "prove" violent video games increase violent crime as those that "prove" that violent video games decrease violent crime.
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Ignore previous comment, and remind me to read the article. :)
So, can I sue various politically-driven groups for libel, even if what they say about the group I'm in is true?
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It's the "complete" part of that word that is the key one. I dare say that no software is ever going to be "perfect" ... or, for that matter, "complete" in the ultimate sense of the word. However, I'm guessing they have a list of functionality that they want to implement before they declare it to be FFmpeg 1.0; fulfilling their list of desired functionality makes it "complete."
i think this is stupid, but it's just my $0.02...
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Yeah, on the computerworld one (which is really an editorial, it's obvious what they think, heh). There are lots of other sources though.
Acar worked under Kundra, Obama's pick to coordinate federal computer systems. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs would not say whether the White House knew the investigation was under way when it named Kundra last week, but called the case "a serious matter."
Acar, a 40-year-old native of Turkey, had a $127,468-a-year position purchasing the city's computer equipment and lining up contract workers for numerous city agencies.
Source: AP
What do you mean? Fashion and beauty would be HUGE news for nerds. I don't think most of them know anything about either one. ;)
Well, it sure sounds like you got upset, whether or not we expected you to. ;)
Meh, not sure what the stereotype mention is doing for the argument.
Omniscience from department heads, no. But whether or not he really knew about it is a rather important question at this point, is it not? No, he's not guilty now, and probably won't be, but we should probably make sure. Which it looks like the FBI is doing. And until they conclusively say something about it, I'm not going to defend him and say he's innocent and didn't know about it. Who knows?
Besides, if you want to pick on the "feeling" thing, what is this doing in the article itself (and the summary):
And if Kundra was aware of what was going on at his former offices or concerned about the raid, it wasn't evident during his speech at FOSE 2009, a trade show focused on government IT.
First, he's not even concerned about the raid of his former office? Seems he could at least be concerned about it and say he didn't know about it. Second, how is his speech an indicator of his innocence or guiltiness? Yay, he gave a morale-boosting rally speech that didn't mention his former office being raided. Must be innocent! ... ?
Again, he probably is and I don't know if he is or not, but the article sure is defending him at this point... to a somewhat silly extent, even saying his speech and his apparent non-concern about the FBI raid ... I mean, if I ran a company of thousands of workers and the FBI raided it and found corruption, I'd at LEAST be upset, especially if I was innocent. I don't understand the article's point, I guess.
But he didn't say the biggest GUI differences, even (and his name is "Guimard" hehe). He said the biggest differences. Either he was actually referring to the visual GUI aspect, or ... something else, but that "something else" is what is a little weird. There's a lot of differences between XP and Ubuntu, perhaps the least of which are GUI. Which is what you are trying to say, I think, in saying the biggest GUI difference is icons/games. He didn't make that distinction between GUI and Other differences. At least, not in the quote in the article (I looked, summary has the complete article's quote, looks like).
As far as illiterate people switching, it seems the more computer illiterate people are, the easier of a time switching. I assume it's because they're used to nothing, and every time they sit down to a computer, it's new. My parents had little trouble going from XP to openSuSE... since they didn't know really what a file or directory was in the first place, it's not hard to switch...
Anyway, I'm a fan of Linux and think it has great uses in offices that just need to do office type things, no special programs, etc. I'm just saying that there are differences (GOOD ones, too!) that he could have mentioned. Like security or reliability. You'd think the French police would be interested in those. :)
Exactly. If he was just another low-level person in the office and didn't know about it, ok. And I can understand having employees and upper management isn't really responsible, especially dependent on the size of the office... but it should at least be thoroughly investigated, and should raise flags. Not "Oh my goodness, he is a sting operation person!" but at least a "We should check and make sure he's innocent before proceeding." Wanting to prove innocence != assuming guilty; it's assuming innocence but not ignorantly.
Hmmm. Let's rewrite it slightly.
While new republican CIO John Doe gave a speech here this morning on his vision for the US government's use of technology, the FBI conducted a search of the Texas's IT offices â" where Doe worked until last week â" and arrested an employee and another person who works for an outsourcing vendor, say reports. There was no indication that Doe was connected in any way to the FBI's raid, which was part of a bribery sting operation. And if Doe was aware of what was going on at his former offices or concerned about the raid, it wasn't evident during his speech at FOSE 2009, a trade show focused on government IT. The FBI would not comment on the reports. President George Bush last week appointed Doe to be the federal government's first official CIO.
Change anything? IMO, it would have. "Look at the corruption, George Bush is now appointing a CIO of the entire USA from a corrupt Texas IT department that is involved in bribery and sting operations!"
Oh. But this is Obama's administration. Who cares if several appointments of his weren't honest about their taxes (oh, sorry, "forgot" about certain items. Admittedly, in some cases, it did look innocent; but sometimes, not so much, especially for someone that you'd think would know these sorts of things...), that his CIO worked in an IT department that had bribery sting deals going on, or whatever...
Eh. I know Bush administration wasn't good and that most all government is corrupt, blah blah. But that doesn't mean I should just ignore this because it happens to everyone or whatever. If the place he worked has people getting busted for bribery or whatever, then investigation should continue; no, not because she is guilty until proven innocent, but because I think government officials should be held to a pretty high standard. Especially since, in the last 100 years, they've tended to be dishonest.
The two biggest differences are the icons and the games.
Man alive. If that's what this person thinks are the "biggest differences" ... I don't know, that just sounds really strange. This wasn't a very technical person, I take it, saying this. Even from a pure user's perspective, there's more that is different than "icons." Like, the entire GUI is different. I know, basic functionality is mostly the same, and you still click things to get them to open, but there's still a lot more different. Good things, too, I'm not trying to say the switch was a bad idea (like security and updates). But it slightly boggles my mind that someone thinks the "biggest difference between XP and Ubuntu are icons and games." It's almost an insult to Ubuntu! ;) Except I like XP, too, but whatever.
I am expecting responses saying that this was from the "user's" perspective... probably true; I still think there's more different than icons and games. Package management would be a major difference from XP, for one thing. More so than icons.
Another big thing in games are sound effects and music. Which usually don't come very free (at least to get really good, immersive music/effects). Then again, a lot of amateur composers (me!) are willing to do stuff pretty cheaply, but it's not going to sound like the LA Phil playing a soundtrack. :)
Electronic music is a cheaper route, as well, but genre/style of music has a huge impact on the style/feel of the game. I can't imagine playing Baldur's Gate with electronic music as its soundtrack :(
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That probably depends on the application(s) running (presuming some sort of server application). Of course, a competent admin in that situation would hopefully choose a suitable filesystem, which may not be ext4 if the delay remains too high.
I don't know what the performance difference is from a "home user" perspective between ext3 and ext4, but if it isn't really noticeable, then why not stay with a more reliable delay time? If most users wouldn't be able to notice the performance increase, it might be better to cater towards reliability, not performance, in that situation.
Admittedly, this is all out of my hat, since I haven't done any performance tests (have you? I'd be interested in hearing first-hand experience of performance increases... will have to look online, too...)
I'll take "I didn't lose my data" over "ext4 runs 1.5x faster than ext3," thank you. What use is performance to me if I have to be absolutely certain that it won't crash, or I lose my (in my very high performance filesystem) data?
Also, ext4 is toted as having additional reliability checks to keep up with scalability, etc... not less reliable at expense of performance.
Reliability
As file systems scale to the massive sizes possible with ext4, greater reliability concerns will certainly follow. Ext4 includes numerous self-protection and self-healing mechanisms to address this.
(from Anatomy of ext4)
I can only imagine the response if tests were done on Windows 7 beta that showed a crash after this or that resulted in loss of data. :)
Bare arms? So, fistfights == reasonable amount of effort to protect myself? :)
The Foxit and Adobe bugs are unrelated, however, except for the fact that they are both in the code that parses JBIG2 images
I fail to see how that is "unrelated." Yeah, it wasn't the "same code" but it was the same code section - the code that parses the images. I'm guessing Foxit uses different code, so obviously it's not going to be the same code and thus not the exact same vulnerability...
"unrelated" and "completely different" seem rather strong words to use. Oh well. :)
I suppose the answer to bullying is playing violent video games... (not necessarily your POV, but seems to be the POV of a lot of slashdotters...)
Or maybe it's a character issue perhaps springing from kids being told they should be allowed to do whatever the want to do, parents being told that they just need to "grow out of it" and that disciplining them is a bad thing and causes them to be social outcasts and causes them to be violent when they grow older...
Hmm.
Yeah, because most thugs are above stealing knives if they can't afford them.
This always comes up with gun laws, etc. The criminals aren't the ones that have difficulty getting guns and they don't care if they are breaking the law by carrying them. "Banning" guns or "banning" knives or any of that sort of activity (taxing, etc) only harms those that want to abide by the law in the first place, not those that are TRYING to break it (kill, stab, steal, whatever).
Hmmm. On the other hand, what about teaching kids that violence (shooting, knifing, whatever) is not the answer? [Violent] video games don't do that.
Yes, it decreases their free time, but not necessarily constructively. I can think of a lot of other activities. You may as well say that TV prevents crime or something, and that taxing TV usage would increase crime? But there's the question of whether or not TV does something to the mind that increases this or that behavior when not watching TV.
Same with video games. What behaviors are actually influenced by video game usage. What real habits are or can be formed virtually. What happens when they lose their job and don't have the money to play the video games anymore...
So, if there is any correlation, it's a negative one: more video games, less knife crime.
Interestingly, that seems to be the opposite side of the correlation != causation arguments that come up on slashdot every time violent video games come up. I know you're not concluding this in your post - but a lot of posts do tend to say "correlation != causation, and besides, violent video games help reduce actual violence ..."
Can't have it both ways, it always seems to be the same kinds of studies (whether psychological, statistical, correlation types, etc) that "prove" violent video games increase violent crime as those that "prove" that violent video games decrease violent crime.