That'd be like saying somebody has a gambling addiction with golf because of membership/green fees at the local course.
Well, once you factor in that golf players are aiming to improve their skills, or even to get promoted at work by being good at the same game that other managers play, then yes, it might.
That's even more true, given the move towards recurrent charges for online games, and charges for equipment upgrades that give you a better chance of winning, etc.
I hate to be negative...but good luck with that.:/
Well, yeah, it's a tough fight to take on. On the other hand though, it's a good thing. Most developers think that you shouldn't work around bugs, or fix surface problems, but should instead drill right down to the fundamental causes of things, and fix those. This way, you solve many problems in one go, and produce more elegant, lasting, maintainable solutions. You might say that this is what hackers are all about: finding ever more elegant solutions to problems that bug them.
The same thing really applies to the copyright vs. corruption issue. Take the stuff that happened over ODF in Boston, for instance: lots of great strides were made in copyright, education, human rights, civil liberties, etc. However, corruption meant that a man lost his job for doing those good things. We could try to fight harder and smarter at the high-level of copyright, but in the end, corruption will undermine any good efforts. I'm glad to hear that Lessig, who I greatly respect (from what I know of him, which is mostly his Free Culture book, and his involvement with FSF) will be tackling this.
They just want to scare you by suing innocent people. They want you to think "if that innocent guy got sued, maybe I am next". It's a bit like terrorism.
I'd buy that if they sued grown & guilty people (even if the guilt is about mere sharing).
But they're frequently found suing kids,
Well, kids also have media buying power these days. Just because the law draws a distinction between adult and child, doesn't mean that the business world does the same. In fact, there are lots of other examples proving that they don't.
or people who never sat on a computer and don't know what an mp3 is.
Oh, they'll just put those down to Casualties of War. I'm pretty sure they're not trying to develop the perfect algorithm here.
Open source is a sort of lead-by-example system. You put your code out there for everyone to see, and they use it or not, and perhaps subscribe to your system of beliefs and turn around and do the same.
Agreed (although you may be confusing Open Source and Free Software). However, the poster is actually claiming that he has a right to do this WITHOUT anyone trying to represent another belief system, which is bull.
So called "junk DNA" actually appears to be functional.
Of course its not junk. Its what we in the programming field would call the Data Segment.
I think this "revelation" that Junk DNA isn't junk falls under the "no shit, sherlock" category. I mean, come on... millions of years of evolution, and humans don't understand it in 100 years, so they label it junk? Kind of arrogant, if not mind-bogglingly shortsighted.
If you want to have good and honest answers, avoid the word fanboy in your original post. Starting off by insulting the very people whose help you ask for isn't a very good idea.
Agreed. But he'd already offended a lot of us, by saying he's just trying to make a living, so he wants to use closed source, but not acknowledging that he'd be making his living off the backs of the many thousands of people who worked on the open source stuff he wants to use.
It's similar in the UK, I think. Most ISPs hook into the national broadband infrastructure provided by BT (unless they're using LLU). BT represent this internal infrastructure as a cloud, with no explanation of what's happening between BT and the ISPs.
he means being able to type things like 'wp slashdot' to go to the wikipedia slashdot page. It's incredibly useful and is one of the reasons I can't even consider using safari in real life.
Hmm. This is actually one of the features I love about konqueror in KDE (which has (and created) the same engine, of course). In kde, I can just type alt-f2 from my desktop to get a run dialog, then type wp:topic in there, and press return. A second or two later (on an old computer), konqueror is open at the page. This provides an entirely new workflow, which GNOME and/or other browsers have never been able to match for me.
I'd be surprised if that's not available in safari, but if it's not, then it's because apple forgot the other important part of Konqueror/KHTML: KDE.
Given the complaints I've seen elsewhere, I think that the quality is closer to alpha stage development. Usually, "public beta" is done on software that's almost ready for use, but has minor bugs.
Exactly. Given the complexity and sophistocation of today's browsers, these things ARE minor. Safari, if you include Konqueror/KHTML, has been in development for something like 10 years. I use konqueror every day, and it's easily complete enough for my needs, with some great features I can't get elsewhere.
The reports I've seen are that there are a lot of serious bugs in rendering and stability, and now, major security problems.
Stability issues are to be expected on a beta of a port to a new platform. KHTML/Webkit is actually quite good in terms of rendering, so it's probably the sites that are broken, or again, some issue with a new platform.
Actually, Only on/. does a joke comparing the brain to an Array, or anything in programming, get modding insightful...
Actually, I think computer science is a very good background for understanding the brain. If more pyschiatrists understood that, they might not still be fumbling around with the basics, and arguing that most mental conditions are is caused by brain chemistry (which is like saying that most software states are caused by an imbalance of 1s and 0s). It might be true, and it might sometimes show a hardware fault, but 99% of the time, it's backwards -- the software changes cause the binary state, not vice versa.
Actually, the photos seem to last longer than the printers. I've seen quite a few pack up just because they weren't used for a while. Granted, this could probably be solved with nozzle cleaning (not the push-button-gui kind), etc., but given the difficulty in doing this, vs. buying a new printer...
It's always funny to see someone who never designed professionally in their life suggest GIMP.
I tend to agree, but not for the reasons you might think. I'm not a pro (graphical) designer, but I've watched a few work, and no, some certainly DON'T need CMYK support, much less HDR support. I've had to fix a relatively experience and technical designer's zoom in photoshop when they thought their LCD had a dead pixel.
Novell's stuff is also a large part of GNOME lately. I used to prefer GNOME, but with the almost-forced move to mono and all, I'm glad KDE has better tech (and GPL compliance) these days.
No, I don't mean allowing tasks to share data. There's lots of scope for parallelisation in spreadsheets. Every individual calculation can be parallelised, and some of the more complex functions alone could be ran on an entire cluster of machines. This will only increase, as an ever-growing number of cores encourages more complex functions to be included in apps.
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Well, once you factor in that golf players are aiming to improve their skills, or even to get promoted at work by being good at the same game that other managers play, then yes, it might.
That's even more true, given the move towards recurrent charges for online games, and charges for equipment upgrades that give you a better chance of winning, etc.
Isn't that model originally from Forbidden Planet?
;)
If so, then... well, even NASA needs a good Malt Whiskey fabber
Well, yeah, it's a tough fight to take on. On the other hand though, it's a good thing. Most developers think that you shouldn't work around bugs, or fix surface problems, but should instead drill right down to the fundamental causes of things, and fix those. This way, you solve many problems in one go, and produce more elegant, lasting, maintainable solutions. You might say that this is what hackers are all about: finding ever more elegant solutions to problems that bug them.
The same thing really applies to the copyright vs. corruption issue. Take the stuff that happened over ODF in Boston, for instance: lots of great strides were made in copyright, education, human rights, civil liberties, etc. However, corruption meant that a man lost his job for doing those good things. We could try to fight harder and smarter at the high-level of copyright, but in the end, corruption will undermine any good efforts. I'm glad to hear that Lessig, who I greatly respect (from what I know of him, which is mostly his Free Culture book, and his involvement with FSF) will be tackling this.
Well, kids also have media buying power these days. Just because the law draws a distinction between adult and child, doesn't mean that the business world does the same. In fact, there are lots of other examples proving that they don't.
Oh, they'll just put those down to Casualties of War. I'm pretty sure they're not trying to develop the perfect algorithm here.
Talk to one some time ;)
Oh, OK. So this news article is just wrong, and they've only made an incremental advancement?
:)
(Not being sarcastic, just trying to get this clarified
OK, someone's going to have to explain this for me. Why do we have to have an actual object to define a weight?
Agreed (although you may be confusing Open Source and Free Software). However, the poster is actually claiming that he has a right to do this WITHOUT anyone trying to represent another belief system, which is bull.
I think this "revelation" that Junk DNA isn't junk falls under the "no shit, sherlock" category. I mean, come on... millions of years of evolution, and humans don't understand it in 100 years, so they label it junk? Kind of arrogant, if not mind-bogglingly shortsighted.
Now that you ask... no.
Agreed. But he'd already offended a lot of us, by saying he's just trying to make a living, so he wants to use closed source, but not acknowledging that he'd be making his living off the backs of the many thousands of people who worked on the open source stuff he wants to use.
It's similar in the UK, I think. Most ISPs hook into the national broadband infrastructure provided by BT (unless they're using LLU). BT represent this internal infrastructure as a cloud, with no explanation of what's happening between BT and the ISPs.
Hmm. This is actually one of the features I love about konqueror in KDE (which has (and created) the same engine, of course). In kde, I can just type alt-f2 from my desktop to get a run dialog, then type wp:topic in there, and press return. A second or two later (on an old computer), konqueror is open at the page. This provides an entirely new workflow, which GNOME and/or other browsers have never been able to match for me.
I'd be surprised if that's not available in safari, but if it's not, then it's because apple forgot the other important part of Konqueror/KHTML: KDE.
Exactly. Given the complexity and sophistocation of today's browsers, these things ARE minor. Safari, if you include Konqueror/KHTML, has been in development for something like 10 years. I use konqueror every day, and it's easily complete enough for my needs, with some great features I can't get elsewhere.
Stability issues are to be expected on a beta of a port to a new platform. KHTML/Webkit is actually quite good in terms of rendering, so it's probably the sites that are broken, or again, some issue with a new platform.
Err, no it's not. I wasn't even talking about memory.
Actually, I think computer science is a very good background for understanding the brain. If more pyschiatrists understood that, they might not still be fumbling around with the basics, and arguing that most mental conditions are is caused by brain chemistry (which is like saying that most software states are caused by an imbalance of 1s and 0s). It might be true, and it might sometimes show a hardware fault, but 99% of the time, it's backwards -- the software changes cause the binary state, not vice versa.
Aren't ions charged (or charge-stripped) particles? Do we really need to say "electric ions"? Is there another kind?
Actually, the photos seem to last longer than the printers. I've seen quite a few pack up just because they weren't used for a while. Granted, this could probably be solved with nozzle cleaning (not the push-button-gui kind), etc., but given the difficulty in doing this, vs. buying a new printer...
Next time, I'm going laser.
I tend to agree, but not for the reasons you might think. I'm not a pro (graphical) designer, but I've watched a few work, and no, some certainly DON'T need CMYK support, much less HDR support. I've had to fix a relatively experience and technical designer's zoom in photoshop when they thought their LCD had a dead pixel.
Novell's stuff is also a large part of GNOME lately. I used to prefer GNOME, but with the almost-forced move to mono and all, I'm glad KDE has better tech (and GPL compliance) these days.
This isn't a democrat vs. republican thing. It's a corrupt vs. other thing.
I don't know about that. Plenty of people hated Bush before 9/11.
OK, I'll represent 0 and 1 with high and low signals, or having lasers on and off, and patent those instead.
No, I don't mean allowing tasks to share data. There's lots of scope for parallelisation in spreadsheets. Every individual calculation can be parallelised, and some of the more complex functions alone could be ran on an entire cluster of machines. This will only increase, as an ever-growing number of cores encourages more complex functions to be included in apps.