What you described is basically a communist utopia. It's an interesting idea in theory, but in practice greed ruins it every time. Greed isn't going away any time soon, so might as well take it into consideration.
so what do these are "not yet here" apps offer me?
Actually working on 64-bit platforms is nice. Reference
Also, I think it's a personal problem, but I haven't been able to get Blender to even work on my system. All the controls show up, but the actual modelling area is blank. No grid, no objects, just dull gray nothing. And it seg faults when I try to add an object. Maybe it's just a precaution since I wouldn't be able to save correctly anyway.
Personally I like K-3D better, although I haven't been able to configure it to use 3Delight correctly.
Could you imagine being the IT manager who has to tell upper management that the big expense you added to the budget two years ago, which was supposed to last five years before being incrementally replaced, now has to be completely trashed and replaced in one go because the encryption turned out to not be safe?
Can you imagine being the IT manager who has to tell upper managment that criminals just got millions upon millions of credit card numbers and SSNs off of the network? Oh, and then tell them you not only knew it was possible, but you knew it was easy to do, and you chose not to do nothing.
Sorry to respond to myself, but I wanted to clarify before people got the wrong idea.
Even if he's found not guilty, he should almost be punished for being stupid. Who the fuck thinks "OMG! My wife is missing! Time to buy those books on committing murder and hiding bodies."
To clarify: I'm not saying the books make him look guilty. I'm saying the books make him look more guilty in the face of other evidence. If it were just the books, I don't think he'd have a problem.
I really like ReiserFS, and I really hope Hans is innocent, but I just can't see him getting off.
It's been a little while so I don't remember all the details, but from what I remember there's a dozen or so pieces of speculative "evidence" against him. The blood in the car, the car seat that mysteriously disappeared the day she went missing, the murder books, and a bunch more. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for one or two, but all of it? I really hope he gets a fair trial, but it'd be one fuck of a coincidence if he wasn't guilty.
Even if he's found not guilty, he should almost be punished for being stupid. Who the fuck thinks "OMG! My wife is missing! Time to buy those books on committing murder and hiding bodies."
The United States is so dependent on cheap crap made in China it's not even funny. Take a look around your house and look for "Made in China". There's a good chance you have more stuff made in China than made in all other countries combined. Any serious trade embargos against China would end up hurting us a whole lot more than it would hurt them.
And don't even think about war. China has nukes. Not to mention they can have more people in their army than the U.S. has people. And then there's the fact we're already spread pretty thin in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Cygwin is already developed and released for free by other people. It would be trivial to add a small cygwin installation to Windows during the Windows install process. Instead they probably spent millions of dollars on crap that's just going to be compared (unfavorably) to the shells in Cygwin and *nix.
Maybe I should have said "They should have just repackaged FreeBSD or Debian instead of wasting time and money on Vista and PowerShell."
Oh, and if you're really having that 'cygwin1.dll' problem, check that the cygwin directory is in your $PATH.
the real advantage is that everything you pass between commands is an object.
That's not an advantage, it's just stupid. Leave it to Microsoft to completely over-complicate something as simple as a shell. They should have saved time and money and just installed Cygwin.
The number can be used to decrypt HD-DVDs and circumvent the "encryption". By hosting a page that displays the number, Digg is enabling that circumvention. So they got a take down notice. No, it doesn't make sense, but it's the law. That's part of the reason why there's so much hatred for the DMCA.
The alternative to taking down the page would have been to refuse and possibly end up in court. Odds are the MAFIAA knows you can't outlaw a number, so that seems unlikely. But Digg didn't even bother, they just gave in, hence the outrage.
Apple literally wrote the book on UI and to claim otherwise is simply ignorant. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines have been the de facto standard for years.
And the de-facto standard operating system doesn't use those guidlines. Besides, being a de-facto standard, or even a real standard, doesn't automatically make something good.
The extra $15 a week I spend on groceries at Safeway is well worth the cost of not being around people who look like they want to marry their cousins, teenagers who think they're gangbangers, and 16 year old single moms. The Safeway is also cleaner and the staff friendlier.
$15 expensive? A while back I bought an old HP Deskjet for $10 at the flea market, my logic being that if it didn't work it wouldn't be a big deal because I'd enjoy taking it apart. A win, either way. But then I had to buy ink. I ended up spending $80 for black and color, and I'll be shocked if they last to 450 pages. Fortunately the printer works, because I don't think they do refunds on ink.
But anyway, $15 would be pretty sweet given the alternatives.
And I've had nothing but endless headaches, hardware compatibility problems, and rampant crashes when I use Windows. Nobody cares. Your inability to run Linux isn't very interesting.
Monopolies are not illegal. Abusing the powers being one gives you, is. MS has, I've yet to see Google do so. So while it doesn't matter what the type of monopoly is, it does matter who it is.
Just because it's not illegal doesn't mean it's a good thing. Illegal or not, monopolies are bad for consumers in almost every case.
You can go on all day about the evils of Microsoft and Yahoo, and how superior Google is, but it doesn't make a Google monopoly any more desirable.
Yes. It's the latest release candidate, released a few days ago.
Is it based on Ubuntu?
No, it's Mandrake, which pre-dates Ubuntu. The name was changed from Mandrake to Mandriva after MandrakeSoft went bankrupt and merged with Connectiva in 2005.
Debian is free until such time as you discover that the PC on your desk was built with some strange graphics card and it takes you two days wrestling to get X up and running.
The company doesn't care, they buy whatever PC Dell/HP/IBM are shipping this month in the knowledge that it'll work in Windows. They're not going to spend weeks ensuring that they're getting something for which Linux drivers exist.
So which graphics card would that be? I hear people spout this shit all the time, but they never give examples. I'm starting to think it's because they don't have examples. These days, if you buy a Dell, HP, or any other name brand PC, it'll run Linux without problem and all of the hardware will work.
Also, the IT department has a limited budget. Training someone up so they can offer support to the 3 people who want Unix desktops is hard to justify. My own take (and I'm the IT manager at our shop, which is almost entirely Linux on servers) has been "Fine, use Linux. We'll happily tell you what type of printers we use and what your DNS/mail server/web proxy should be, but it's your problem to set it up and your problem to support it. You just have to clear doing that with your manager and you're away."
The way I see it, my employer can let me use a *nix and work to my full potential, or they can pay me to be less productive with Windows. Either way is fine by me. But Debian is free and having me waste time figuring out Windows is really expensive. If that's not a good enough reason, they won't be convinced.
Funny thing about that. See, starving poor people don't usually have much money. And the only reason this corn is even being grown is because energy companies are willing to pay record high prices for it. If the starving poor people were willing to do that, they wouldn't be starving poor people.
Don't waste time learning a lot of computer languages. Pick one or two, learn them well, learn their standard libraries, write programs in them, and read/maintain other people's code. Spend most of your time focusing on concepts that generalize to all programming.
Knowing about design patterns is useful in any language. The intricacies of C++ template programming are not. If I say "That's a singleton", people will know what I'm talking about whether the code is written in Ruby, C++, Java, or Cobol.
Once or twice a year, spend some time learning about a language you don't know. Try to understand how it's different than the language you normally use, and more importantly *why*. Look at example code and code from open source projects and try to emulate their code with your code. For example, Ruby will let you open a file, read and process each line in a while loop, then close the file. But the "ruby way" of doing it is to pass a code block to the file's "each_line" method.
After you understand the syntax and the strengths of the new language, and the idioms used by the language, decide what you like, and what you don't. Then figure out how you can apply the new things in the language you regularly use.
Constant upgrades aren't always a good thing. Major upgrades normally mean having to relearn interfaces. Updates are a different matter, and MS and Apple both provide updates quite regularly.
Then use Debian. If you only want bug fixes, Linux is the only logical choice. Will Microsoft support Vista in 15 years? No. Will the source code for the current version of Linux be available in 15 years? Yes.
Again this doesn't give any incentive to switch. If it only does the things Windows and MacOS can do, why not just keep using what you have? They need to show something that the others can't do, or can't do easily. As for running on any hardware, while the basic install might work, drivers are a different story. Windows drivers are pretty much guaranteed for any hardware. With Linux you could have problems with video, network, audio, and other drivers (I had to do a lot of hacking to get my video and audio drivers working in Ubuntu).
Give me a break. For every piece of hardware you had to "hack" Linux to get working, I can tell you about hardware that I couldn't get working under Windows at all. Both operating systems have hardware incompatibilities, so it's not very interesting that you found one. Did you at least report a bug? Or do you just like bitching about it?
Besides, everybody knows drivers are the responsibility of the hardware manufacturers. Try blaming Windows for a system crash and within minutes you'll have half a dozen responses telling you the problem is shitty drivers from the manufacturer. The silver lining of Linux developers having to reverse engineer drivers is that the code gets scrutinized and held to the coding standards used throughout the kernel, so they tend to be well written and stable. Personally, I prefer Linux's stable drivers for limited hardware over Window's shit drivers for everything.
No, that's exactly what it means. Especially in the day of publishing on the web, where when you decide to stop pulishing, it's gone. If you publish a book and sell it, whoever bought the book can come back to it over and over. If you remove your webpage it's gone -- unless some asshat corporation (non-profit or otherwise) comes along and decides to republish your content without your permission. Archive.org, Google, etc. are massive copyright violators. It's not for you to dictate to me the method I have to use to tell you not to violate my rights. Being indexed should be opt-in. Just like being spammed. Being employed. Being in a relationship. Being called by telemarketers.
Oops! Looks like somebody doesn't understand the internet.
Robots.txt is the way to block web spiders from your site. That's not somebody "dictating your rights", that just the way it fucking works. It dictates your rights the same way a steering wheel dictates the way you have to steer your car. You don't have to use it, but your solution probably won't work, and you'll look like a moron. When you have a blank or non-existant robots.txt, it's understood by billions of people on the internet that you don't mind if web spiders crawl your site and add it to their index, make cached copies, etc. That's the way it was designed, and that's the way its worked from the very beginning. It's not rocket science.
Also, every person who visits your site gets a complete copy of the pages they visit in their browser cache. Once your page is cached in my browser, I have that information forever. I can delete it, view it, save it to CD, make a PDF, etc. Just like the person who owns a book that's no longer published. There's not some magic "delete fairy" who goes around deleting everyone's browser cache when you decide to delete a page.
Maybe not everyone knows about their browser cache or robots.txt, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. You can't change the way the internet works because a bunch of morons failed to do even the most basic research before throwing their crap on the web.
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What you described is basically a communist utopia. It's an interesting idea in theory, but in practice greed ruins it every time. Greed isn't going away any time soon, so might as well take it into consideration.
Yes. Does it matter?
Actually working on 64-bit platforms is nice. Reference
Also, I think it's a personal problem, but I haven't been able to get Blender to even work on my system. All the controls show up, but the actual modelling area is blank. No grid, no objects, just dull gray nothing. And it seg faults when I try to add an object. Maybe it's just a precaution since I wouldn't be able to save correctly anyway.
Personally I like K-3D better, although I haven't been able to configure it to use 3Delight correctly.
God damn lack of coffee. Should read: "and you chose to do nothing."
Can you imagine being the IT manager who has to tell upper managment that criminals just got millions upon millions of credit card numbers and SSNs off of the network? Oh, and then tell them you not only knew it was possible, but you knew it was easy to do, and you chose not to do nothing.
Sorry to respond to myself, but I wanted to clarify before people got the wrong idea.
To clarify: I'm not saying the books make him look guilty. I'm saying the books make him look more guilty in the face of other evidence. If it were just the books, I don't think he'd have a problem.
I really like ReiserFS, and I really hope Hans is innocent, but I just can't see him getting off.
It's been a little while so I don't remember all the details, but from what I remember there's a dozen or so pieces of speculative "evidence" against him. The blood in the car, the car seat that mysteriously disappeared the day she went missing, the murder books, and a bunch more. I'd give him the benefit of the doubt for one or two, but all of it? I really hope he gets a fair trial, but it'd be one fuck of a coincidence if he wasn't guilty.
Even if he's found not guilty, he should almost be punished for being stupid. Who the fuck thinks "OMG! My wife is missing! Time to buy those books on committing murder and hiding bodies."
Don't hold your breath.
The United States is so dependent on cheap crap made in China it's not even funny. Take a look around your house and look for "Made in China". There's a good chance you have more stuff made in China than made in all other countries combined. Any serious trade embargos against China would end up hurting us a whole lot more than it would hurt them.
And don't even think about war. China has nukes. Not to mention they can have more people in their army than the U.S. has people. And then there's the fact we're already spread pretty thin in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Cygwin is already developed and released for free by other people. It would be trivial to add a small cygwin installation to Windows during the Windows install process. Instead they probably spent millions of dollars on crap that's just going to be compared (unfavorably) to the shells in Cygwin and *nix.
Maybe I should have said "They should have just repackaged FreeBSD or Debian instead of wasting time and money on Vista and PowerShell."
Oh, and if you're really having that 'cygwin1.dll' problem, check that the cygwin directory is in your $PATH.
That's not an advantage, it's just stupid. Leave it to Microsoft to completely over-complicate something as simple as a shell. They should have saved time and money and just installed Cygwin.
The number can be used to decrypt HD-DVDs and circumvent the "encryption". By hosting a page that displays the number, Digg is enabling that circumvention. So they got a take down notice. No, it doesn't make sense, but it's the law. That's part of the reason why there's so much hatred for the DMCA.
The alternative to taking down the page would have been to refuse and possibly end up in court. Odds are the MAFIAA knows you can't outlaw a number, so that seems unlikely. But Digg didn't even bother, they just gave in, hence the outrage.
And the de-facto standard operating system doesn't use those guidlines. Besides, being a de-facto standard, or even a real standard, doesn't automatically make something good.
The extra $15 a week I spend on groceries at Safeway is well worth the cost of not being around people who look like they want to marry their cousins, teenagers who think they're gangbangers, and 16 year old single moms. The Safeway is also cleaner and the staff friendlier.
$15 expensive? A while back I bought an old HP Deskjet for $10 at the flea market, my logic being that if it didn't work it wouldn't be a big deal because I'd enjoy taking it apart. A win, either way. But then I had to buy ink. I ended up spending $80 for black and color, and I'll be shocked if they last to 450 pages. Fortunately the printer works, because I don't think they do refunds on ink.
But anyway, $15 would be pretty sweet given the alternatives.
And I've had nothing but endless headaches, hardware compatibility problems, and rampant crashes when I use Windows. Nobody cares. Your inability to run Linux isn't very interesting.
Wake up. The majority of electronic things you buy are already made in China. It's a little late to complain about it.
Just because it's not illegal doesn't mean it's a good thing. Illegal or not, monopolies are bad for consumers in almost every case.
You can go on all day about the evils of Microsoft and Yahoo, and how superior Google is, but it doesn't make a Google monopoly any more desirable.
Yes. It's the latest release candidate, released a few days ago.
No, it's Mandrake, which pre-dates Ubuntu. The name was changed from Mandrake to Mandriva after MandrakeSoft went bankrupt and merged with Connectiva in 2005.
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So which graphics card would that be? I hear people spout this shit all the time, but they never give examples. I'm starting to think it's because they don't have examples. These days, if you buy a Dell, HP, or any other name brand PC, it'll run Linux without problem and all of the hardware will work.
Long live the Peter Principle.
The way I see it, my employer can let me use a *nix and work to my full potential, or they can pay me to be less productive with Windows. Either way is fine by me. But Debian is free and having me waste time figuring out Windows is really expensive. If that's not a good enough reason, they won't be convinced.
Funny thing about that. See, starving poor people don't usually have much money. And the only reason this corn is even being grown is because energy companies are willing to pay record high prices for it. If the starving poor people were willing to do that, they wouldn't be starving poor people.
Yes, it's harsh, but that's the way it works.
Don't waste time learning a lot of computer languages. Pick one or two, learn them well, learn their standard libraries, write programs in them, and read/maintain other people's code. Spend most of your time focusing on concepts that generalize to all programming.
Knowing about design patterns is useful in any language. The intricacies of C++ template programming are not. If I say "That's a singleton", people will know what I'm talking about whether the code is written in Ruby, C++, Java, or Cobol.
Once or twice a year, spend some time learning about a language you don't know. Try to understand how it's different than the language you normally use, and more importantly *why*. Look at example code and code from open source projects and try to emulate their code with your code. For example, Ruby will let you open a file, read and process each line in a while loop, then close the file. But the "ruby way" of doing it is to pass a code block to the file's "each_line" method.
After you understand the syntax and the strengths of the new language, and the idioms used by the language, decide what you like, and what you don't. Then figure out how you can apply the new things in the language you regularly use.
Then use Debian. If you only want bug fixes, Linux is the only logical choice. Will Microsoft support Vista in 15 years? No. Will the source code for the current version of Linux be available in 15 years? Yes.
Give me a break. For every piece of hardware you had to "hack" Linux to get working, I can tell you about hardware that I couldn't get working under Windows at all. Both operating systems have hardware incompatibilities, so it's not very interesting that you found one. Did you at least report a bug? Or do you just like bitching about it?
Besides, everybody knows drivers are the responsibility of the hardware manufacturers. Try blaming Windows for a system crash and within minutes you'll have half a dozen responses telling you the problem is shitty drivers from the manufacturer. The silver lining of Linux developers having to reverse engineer drivers is that the code gets scrutinized and held to the coding standards used throughout the kernel, so they tend to be well written and stable. Personally, I prefer Linux's stable drivers for limited hardware over Window's shit drivers for everything.
Eh, fuck 'em. You can't stop people from working on software in their free time and giving it away.
Not everyone cares about "beating" Microsoft.
Oops! Looks like somebody doesn't understand the internet.
Robots.txt is the way to block web spiders from your site. That's not somebody "dictating your rights", that just the way it fucking works. It dictates your rights the same way a steering wheel dictates the way you have to steer your car. You don't have to use it, but your solution probably won't work, and you'll look like a moron. When you have a blank or non-existant robots.txt, it's understood by billions of people on the internet that you don't mind if web spiders crawl your site and add it to their index, make cached copies, etc. That's the way it was designed, and that's the way its worked from the very beginning. It's not rocket science.
Also, every person who visits your site gets a complete copy of the pages they visit in their browser cache. Once your page is cached in my browser, I have that information forever. I can delete it, view it, save it to CD, make a PDF, etc. Just like the person who owns a book that's no longer published. There's not some magic "delete fairy" who goes around deleting everyone's browser cache when you decide to delete a page.
Maybe not everyone knows about their browser cache or robots.txt, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. You can't change the way the internet works because a bunch of morons failed to do even the most basic research before throwing their crap on the web.