However, I think we can all agree now that GPL V3 was a good idea because it would prevent our current situation of half-open devices.
So in the future all devices will be completly closed and prevented from ever being open?
I would prefer to be in a complete open world. But then reading the FSF's homepage I often get the impression that if you cannot convert fully to free software then there is no point converting at all. They constantly attack any project allowing a transition from closed to open if it is not fully open. It just isn't possible right now and only gets harder with time.
I believe that the goal is ultimately the same (fully open) but FSF has a philosophically approach with freedom for a few and OSI has an realistic approach for freedom for the mass.
Caps lock might be good as an alternative for sticky shift for people with too few fingers but I believe it to be a legacy from the typewriter days then physical locking the shift could save some effort (depending on typewriter shift could be rather heavy if typing more than one capital letter). It is placed they too centrally no matter how I look at it.
I press Num lock all the time because it always seems to be in the wrong state. If there is a keypad on the keyboard I expect it to be permanently ON (absolutely no exceptions). Most operating systems I have come across have a bad habit of turning it off sometimes without changing the light. If the keypad is placed among the normal buttons I expect it to be permanently OFF (absolutely no exceptions either) From the picture it appears that both Num Lock and the numpad keys in the middle of the normal keys are gone. I can hope that this means that the state of num lock does not matter. The keys should never have been placed among the normal keys in the first place.
I don't like that they have remapped the function keys and replaced them with brightness, volume and so on. I need to press F2 more often than I need to change the brightness. I know that they are considered a legacy from the days before the mouse... but I don't always have a mouse connected to my laptop and even on the desktop I often prefer the F-keys.
Even if all previous tries have failed is not a guarantee that it will fail again. Even if the technology is the same times change.
However Google might be out a little early. The question is of course if the Internet is ready to handle a secondary device? I have worked in some companies and the question being asked then moving things out of the house is: Is the Internet stable enough. Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it is no.
The biggest problem is of course that even if the Internet is 90% of all needed functionality we still have the critical 10% that is different for all users and therefore cannot be moved to the cloud.
Google admit that the new device can only be used as a secondary device because it lacks important functionality but one wonders if that is enough. The mobile technology suggests that people might want fewer devices not an extra.
Then the EU ill send a letter to Sweden telling them that they are very angry at them.
I have formulated it as a joke but really it is not.
There are no official way to punish a member that does not implement the EU laws. Many members ignore 50% of all laws.
In some cases people can get compensation if they have an actual documented loss directly because a member has not passed a law. But that does not apply to terror.
A lot of rulings are given each day and none of them have any effect.
The Googlebomb is just an example of the weighted "democracy" that Page Rank is supposed to be all about
No, Page Rank is weighted democracy. A Googlebomb tries to destroy the Page Rank.
Page Rank is supposed to sort the pages according to there relevance, based on the links found on the Internet. A Googlebomb tries to prevent Page Rank from doing that by manipulating the links on the Internet. A Googlebomb does not mean that Internet users get more relevant results it is the other way around.
The real problem is that the software player need to decode the video at some point, and for that it needs to use the key.
That is a design flaw. They could just copy the data directly from the HDDVD to the graphics card, skipping the whole software part.
However this would have caused them some problems:
People would not need to buy expensive software, so they would get less money
DRM is enforced in software, it is not that easy for the graphics card to know if the user have payed extra so he can use surround sound, especially now then the drivers are moving out from the kernel.
High performance hardware does not allow upgrading, so if the key is broken... it is just broken!
So far all NVIDIA drivers except the graphics has been open source and build into the kernel itself.
The more interesting question is how long will the delay be then it first has to put into the kernel and then the distros must upgrade the kernel.
On one of my servers I had trouble with Debian stable and an ASUS motherboard with a Nvidia chipset. UNSTABLE worked but I don't run that on a server (ended up with Ubuntu server)
I would not want closed source software on my server.
I got into the Internet thing very late and started using IE3 and later IE4 before changing to Netscape 4. I believe that Netscape 4 was a better browser than Internet Explorer 4.0 it was more stable (especially then running Java).
Then IE 5.0 came and I started using it. It was just so much better than IE4 and N4...
Then Netscape 6.0 came and it was a piece of crap it crashed 3 times as often as IE. It is weird but my reason for using Netscape 6.0 in that period was in fact a stability question... Then IE crashed it took most of Windows 98 down as well. It didn't happened then Netscape crashed. I have preferred programs separated from the System core ever since.
Then I changed to Windows 2000 I started using IE again since stability was no longer an issue.
Later switched back to Netscape to use pop-up blockers and tabs (amazing back then)
Never went back to IE since (and most likely wont as I am not running Windows anymore)
A little on the main topic: I don't think Symantic and McAfee should be the only ones worrying. I think Microsoft will go for Adobe next. If MS can dominate with a flash-like program, a photoshop like program and a acrobat like program they can effectively stop anyone from switching from windows ever again!
I think it is a little improvement that there are no dialog boxes as standard and that users should click on a yellow bar. Most users click 'yes' to all questions, so there are really no reason to ask at all unless you place a huge delay on the 'yes' and 'always buttons.
It annoys me that innocent looking programs like 'Java' and 'Flash' are now including these malware toolbars (Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar), unless the users makes a 'advanced install' and actively prevents it. In a few years we will see a screenshot like the first one and the user hasn't installed a single one, just not made an effort in preventing them.
The problem is that MS Visual Studio is just so well integrated. Things like GUI design, code completion, compiling converting to and from web applications is just so easy.
Windows Forms are just at hand.
Then I build programs on Linux on the other hand (or whit Dev C++) I'm missing a lot. With the exception of Eclipse (witch I admire) there are just something missing. If I'm designing a GUI in GTK Designer I can't just double click on a button and write the code for it. No. I have to first make the GUI remember all the names and make callback functions to them!
Since the release of ASP.net 2.0 I just don't see the point of PHP anymore (Ruby on rails might be an option but it is early)
In Visual Studio everything is integrated. Everywhere else the philosophy seems to be: "Keep everything separate". This might work well with the Unix Philosophy about small and reusable but for most developers it is a hell starting by looking for the right library in the current situation.
Then newcomers ask me that the PHP alternative to Visual Studio Web Express Edition is, I simply don't have an answer. That program allows me to drag and drop a login view and a GridView into a site and afterwards expect it to run on all PHP servers? (if anyone knows the answer please say so)
the people who have seen the light refers to the new programmers as just not good enough. But new programmers will most likely need to start with Visual Studio and then they first have started they just stay there
Ok wait...if religion is rock and science is paper what's scissors?
politics.
Actually, no. It's reality.
Do you mean that reality cuts science to pieces but is destroyed by religion?
I go for the politics too. They cut the budged and feels the heavyweight of religion.
I installed it with no problems, but I can't run it as a normal user, i need to run it with "sudo googleearth" or I will get a symlink error. Using Ubuntu 6.06. Is it just me or is everyone else just running as root by default?
Just my words.
Then I look at Firefox as a program I think making it atractive for non-geeks destroyed many of the things I liked. But that is nothing compared to effect it has on the web pages I view, pages has simply started to look better... sadly the spyware attacks have increased too, but what kind of geek would you be if that was a problem?
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However, I think we can all agree now that GPL V3 was a good idea because it would prevent our current situation of half-open devices.
So in the future all devices will be completly closed and prevented from ever being open?
I would prefer to be in a complete open world. But then reading the FSF's homepage I often get the impression that if you cannot convert fully to free software then there is no point converting at all. They constantly attack any project allowing a transition from closed to open if it is not fully open. It just isn't possible right now and only gets harder with time.
I believe that the goal is ultimately the same (fully open) but FSF has a philosophically approach with freedom for a few and OSI has an realistic approach for freedom for the mass.
Caps lock might be good as an alternative for sticky shift for people with too few fingers but I believe it to be a legacy from the typewriter days then physical locking the shift could save some effort (depending on typewriter shift could be rather heavy if typing more than one capital letter). It is placed they too centrally no matter how I look at it.
I press Num lock all the time because it always seems to be in the wrong state.
If there is a keypad on the keyboard I expect it to be permanently ON (absolutely no exceptions). Most operating systems I have come across have a bad habit of turning it off sometimes without changing the light.
If the keypad is placed among the normal buttons I expect it to be permanently OFF (absolutely no exceptions either)
From the picture it appears that both Num Lock and the numpad keys in the middle of the normal keys are gone. I can hope that this means that the state of num lock does not matter. The keys should never have been placed among the normal keys in the first place.
I don't like that they have remapped the function keys and replaced them with brightness, volume and so on. I need to press F2 more often than I need to change the brightness. I know that they are considered a legacy from the days before the mouse... but I don't always have a mouse connected to my laptop and even on the desktop I often prefer the F-keys.
Even if all previous tries have failed is not a guarantee that it will fail again. Even if the technology is the same times change.
However Google might be out a little early. The question is of course if the Internet is ready to handle a secondary device? I have worked in some companies and the question being asked then moving things out of the house is: Is the Internet stable enough. Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it is no.
The biggest problem is of course that even if the Internet is 90% of all needed functionality we still have the critical 10% that is different for all users and therefore cannot be moved to the cloud.
Google admit that the new device can only be used as a secondary device because it lacks important functionality but one wonders if that is enough. The mobile technology suggests that people might want fewer devices not an extra.
If you're running a serious server you should always do a reboot test after installing any software.
You should obviously wait to outside working hours in case it actually breaks something.
If you apply an update over ssh you should test that you can create a new ssh connection before you disconnect the first one.
And what if they don't obey?
Then the EU ill send a letter to Sweden telling them that they are very angry at them.
I have formulated it as a joke but really it is not.
There are no official way to punish a member that does not implement the EU laws. Many members ignore 50% of all laws.
In some cases people can get compensation if they have an actual documented loss directly because a member has not passed a law. But that does not apply to terror.
A lot of rulings are given each day and none of them have any effect.
Of course all changes to the GPLv2 programs can be moved to GPLv3 but not the other way.
The GPLv2 version will soon be outdated and Suse would look old if they don't move to GPLv3.
But lets see if it is actually going to be a problem. Nothing is illegal until the court way so.
The Googlebomb is just an example of the weighted "democracy" that Page Rank is supposed to be all about
No, Page Rank is weighted democracy. A Googlebomb tries to destroy the Page Rank.
Page Rank is supposed to sort the pages according to there relevance, based on the links found on the Internet. A Googlebomb tries to prevent Page Rank from doing that by manipulating the links on the Internet. A Googlebomb does not mean that Internet users get more relevant results it is the other way around.
The real problem is that the software player need to decode the video at some point, and for that it needs to use the key.
That is a design flaw. They could just copy the data directly from the HDDVD to the graphics card, skipping the whole software part.
However this would have caused them some problems:
People would not need to buy expensive software, so they would get less money
DRM is enforced in software, it is not that easy for the graphics card to know if the user have payed extra so he can use surround sound, especially now then the drivers are moving out from the kernel.
High performance hardware does not allow upgrading, so if the key is broken... it is just broken!
There have never been a program that "Just works" that is properly why it is so sought after.
Even Google have the problem that people actually have to choose good words. I didn't realize it was hard until I saw some examples of search strings.
So far all NVIDIA drivers except the graphics has been open source and build into the kernel itself.
The more interesting question is how long will the delay be then it first has to put into the kernel and then the distros must upgrade the kernel.
On one of my servers I had trouble with Debian stable and an ASUS motherboard with a Nvidia chipset. UNSTABLE worked but I don't run that on a server (ended up with Ubuntu server)
I would not want closed source software on my server.
Another excellent reason to use Debian. You'll never fall behind.
In my expeperience you will fall behind even if you have the newest version of Debian STABLE
I got into the Internet thing very late and started using IE3 and later IE4 before changing to Netscape 4. I believe that Netscape 4 was a better browser than Internet Explorer 4.0 it was more stable (especially then running Java).
Then IE 5.0 came and I started using it. It was just so much better than IE4 and N4...
Then Netscape 6.0 came and it was a piece of crap it crashed 3 times as often as IE. It is weird but my reason for using Netscape 6.0 in that period was in fact a stability question... Then IE crashed it took most of Windows 98 down as well. It didn't happened then Netscape crashed. I have preferred programs separated from the System core ever since.
Then I changed to Windows 2000 I started using IE again since stability was no longer an issue.
Later switched back to Netscape to use pop-up blockers and tabs (amazing back then)
Never went back to IE since (and most likely wont as I am not running Windows anymore)
A little on the main topic:
I don't think Symantic and McAfee should be the only ones worrying. I think Microsoft will go for Adobe next. If MS can dominate with a flash-like program, a photoshop like program and a acrobat like program they can effectively stop anyone from switching from windows ever again!
I think it is a little improvement that there are no dialog boxes as standard and that users should click on a yellow bar. Most users click 'yes' to all questions, so there are really no reason to ask at all unless you place a huge delay on the 'yes' and 'always buttons.
It annoys me that innocent looking programs like 'Java' and 'Flash' are now including these malware toolbars (Google Toolbar and Yahoo Toolbar), unless the users makes a 'advanced install' and actively prevents it. In a few years we will see a screenshot like the first one and the user hasn't installed a single one, just not made an effort in preventing them.
The problem is that MS Visual Studio is just so well integrated. Things like GUI design, code completion, compiling converting to and from web applications is just so easy.
Windows Forms are just at hand.
Then I build programs on Linux on the other hand (or whit Dev C++) I'm missing a lot. With the exception of Eclipse (witch I admire) there are just something missing. If I'm designing a GUI in GTK Designer I can't just double click on a button and write the code for it. No. I have to first make the GUI remember all the names and make callback functions to them!
Since the release of ASP.net 2.0 I just don't see the point of PHP anymore (Ruby on rails might be an option but it is early)
In Visual Studio everything is integrated. Everywhere else the philosophy seems to be: "Keep everything separate". This might work well with the Unix Philosophy about small and reusable but for most developers it is a hell starting by looking for the right library in the current situation.
Then newcomers ask me that the PHP alternative to Visual Studio Web Express Edition is, I simply don't have an answer. That program allows me to drag and drop a login view and a GridView into a site and afterwards expect it to run on all PHP servers? (if anyone knows the answer please say so)
the people who have seen the light refers to the new programmers as just not good enough. But new programmers will most likely need to start with Visual Studio and then they first have started they just stay there
That worked.
I guess it was a mistake to let it "Start GoogleEarth now" at the end of the installation.
Thanks
That answer could be considered rude.
I installed it with no problems, but I can't run it as a normal user, i need to run it with "sudo googleearth" or I will get a symlink error. Using Ubuntu 6.06.
Is it just me or is everyone else just running as root by default?
LAMP: Linux, Apache, Most of our cool scripting languages start with a P and PostgreSQL
Just my words. Then I look at Firefox as a program I think making it atractive for non-geeks destroyed many of the things I liked. But that is nothing compared to effect it has on the web pages I view, pages has simply started to look better... sadly the spyware attacks have increased too, but what kind of geek would you be if that was a problem?