Yes, because "downstate democrats" control the state assembly and "upstate republicans" control the state senate, there has not been an on time state budget for as long as I can remember.
To pin it this problem on any particular political faction or any particular issue is silly, because the problem is systematic and transcends specific issues.
And yeah, we do have an awful lot of right wing Conservatives (Conservative Party of New York State) that don't necessarily align themselves the Republican party. Without their support, no Republican candidate has won a state-wide election in recent history.
Yep... MSDN Academic Alliance allows all the engineering students at our school to download ISOs of pretty much all the major Microsoft operating systems, compilers and applications and burn them at home with our own personal license key. I'm sure a lot of other schools are linked with this web site.
Native methods are there to allow a Java program to call code that has not been written in Java, providing access to things such as platform specific functionality. It does not necessarily make your program run faster and should generally not be used to improve performance.
Actually, that's been Microsoft's MO for a long time. Paul Graham's point is that MS isn't even involved in that anymore. Google and Yahoo are the big players buying startups these days. Microsoft's not even on the radar:
I know when we started Y Combinator we didn't worry about Microsoft as competition for the startups we funded. In fact, we've never even invited them to the demo days we organize for startups to present to investors. We invite Yahoo and Google and some other Internet companies, but we've never bothered to invite Microsoft.
Consider 3 types of relationships: mutualistic, commensalistic, and parasitic. The worst you can say about poster is that he or she is a commenalist. His or her point (not one I agree with) is that Novell is hurting the community for its own benefit, this making them a parasite.
I do see Novell benefiting the community, but at the same time, they do make some questionable partnerships and public statements. Competition with Redhat and Canonical is good for the community because it makes all of them work harder, as long as it's fair and as long as their contributions are made to the community.
(which from an archival viewpoint is a good thing, the more ways we have of doing the same thing means a bigger safety net for our data)
Care to explain? Having multiple formats just means that you're more likely to pick the wrong format and end up without access to your data from new products in the future. Having multiple ways of doing the same thing only fractures the community doing the thing.
What's keeping it from being standardized? It turns out that the standards written are grossly inadequate for third parties to implement. If Microsoft authored a better specification, nobody would care.
Not to mention, what does it matter if it's "standardized" (and by that I assume you mean accepted as a ISO standard)? It's already implemented in the next version of Office, which in a very real sense, makes it a defacto standard. What this is about is getting the format accepted by ISO. And the only reason to fast track it is so that Microsoft can use this as a marketing tool against opendocument and openoffice.
Make no mistake, all other reasons for standardization require a "drawn out" process involving interested stakeholders, such as the openoffice community as well as businesses that use office software. This ensure the standard is actually useful to third parties, making the format increase, rather than decrease interoperability.
Different problem, but yeah, I agree there's work yet to be done. I see two fronts for solving this (after the initial argument that everything worth having will get into the repository over time).
1) Make it easier to turn a source release into a dpkg archive and make it trivial to create an apt repository
This will make it really easy for third parties to get their packages out to Debian-based desktops.
2) Improve gapti/gdebi and get the word out on their capabilities.
These tools let the user click on a link at the third party's site, download and install software with a click of 1 or 2 buttons.
Of course, IMHO, the best place to get the software is from the distributor whenever possible, since everything there has some quality check, there's a single place to get support.
That wasn't quite my point. I was trying to get at the fact that, OK, double clicking setup.exe is easy, but the overhead of keeping up to date with all your 3rd party software is tedious and a significant administrative overhead. And I wasn't trying to say your mum's not capable of it either, I'm sure she's a fine and thoughtful lady. I was just suggesting that I'm sure both she and you would prefer it if she didn't have the headache of managing the updates herself for each application in which she's interested.
You get that the whole point is to have a "single sign on," right? And that the problem with Passport is that there is only one possible provider (Microsoft)? OpenID lets anyone be the identity provider. If you want your email to be your signon, just ask your email provider to support openID. It's can only be good news if large sites with lots of users become openID identity providers rather than each company developing their own identity system.
Sure, she can do the install, but what about getting updates and bug and security fixes? And what of spyware?
I much prefer (as do my sister and mother) the simplicity of going to the Applications menu and clicking the entry for "Add/Remove...". You can browse around or search for a particular program by type or name. Click a checkbox, click OK, it's installed, unclick a checkbox, click OK, it's gone from your computer.
Huh... that's the exact setup I have. Here's what I did:
Plug in the XP drive (make it the master drive), install XP. shutdown, unplug the XP drive. Plug in the (blank) linux drive (making it the master), install linux (Ubuntu, for example) as usual, shutdown. Plug in the XP drive, this time making it the slave. Boot up, linux will show up (as expected). Tweak the grub conf (/boot/grub/menu.lst) file like so: title Windows XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1
I put that bit near the top of the file and windows boots normally, thinking it's on the IDE master drive.
For the intents and purposes of this argument, yes. Not to mention, CEOs generally own a lot of stock in the companies they run, so in a real sense, it is their "own" company.
Under his leadership, Goldman-Sachs made $9.5 billion. Sure the employees pick the investments and do the work, but he's "at the helm." I see no problem with a bonus of roughly 0.5% of earnings going to the person in charge.
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rsync works great for many use cases when transfers really need to be resumed.
North New York:New York City::West Virginia:Virginia
Let's cross the bridge when someone actually creates the mythical support-less software.
Yes, because "downstate democrats" control the state assembly and "upstate republicans" control the state senate, there has not been an on time state budget for as long as I can remember.
To pin it this problem on any particular political faction or any particular issue is silly, because the problem is systematic and transcends specific issues.
And yeah, we do have an awful lot of right wing Conservatives (Conservative Party of New York State) that don't necessarily align themselves the Republican party. Without their support, no Republican candidate has won a state-wide election in recent history.
Yep... MSDN Academic Alliance allows all the engineering students at our school to download ISOs of pretty much all the major Microsoft operating systems, compilers and applications and burn them at home with our own personal license key. I'm sure a lot of other schools are linked with this web site.
Native methods are there to allow a Java program to call code that has not been written in Java, providing access to things such as platform specific functionality. It does not necessarily make your program run faster and should generally not be used to improve performance.
Does my 4 digit UID give me the right to smack you down for suggesting that the absence of evidence is the same as the evidence of absence?
Consider 3 types of relationships: mutualistic, commensalistic, and parasitic. The worst you can say about poster is that he or she is a commenalist. His or her point (not one I agree with) is that Novell is hurting the community for its own benefit, this making them a parasite.
I do see Novell benefiting the community, but at the same time, they do make some questionable partnerships and public statements. Competition with Redhat and Canonical is good for the community because it makes all of them work harder, as long as it's fair and as long as their contributions are made to the community.
Yes, I think that was the gist of my post.
(which from an archival viewpoint is a good thing, the more ways we have of doing the same thing means a bigger safety net for our data)
Care to explain? Having multiple formats just means that you're more likely to pick the wrong format and end up without access to your data from new products in the future. Having multiple ways of doing the same thing only fractures the community doing the thing.
What's keeping it from being standardized? It turns out that the standards written are grossly inadequate for third parties to implement. If Microsoft authored a better specification, nobody would care.
Not to mention, what does it matter if it's "standardized" (and by that I assume you mean accepted as a ISO standard)? It's already implemented in the next version of Office, which in a very real sense, makes it a defacto standard. What this is about is getting the format accepted by ISO. And the only reason to fast track it is so that Microsoft can use this as a marketing tool against opendocument and openoffice.
Make no mistake, all other reasons for standardization require a "drawn out" process involving interested stakeholders, such as the openoffice community as well as businesses that use office software. This ensure the standard is actually useful to third parties, making the format increase, rather than decrease interoperability.
You mean the ice from the melting glaciers leading to more ocean ice?
Also, you're just wrong on your facts about temperatures. Check the NASA reports: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20070208/
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Different problem, but yeah, I agree there's work yet to be done. I see two fronts for solving this (after the initial argument that everything worth having will get into the repository over time).
1) Make it easier to turn a source release into a dpkg archive and make it trivial to create an apt repository
This will make it really easy for third parties to get their packages out to Debian-based desktops.
2) Improve gapti/gdebi and get the word out on their capabilities.
These tools let the user click on a link at the third party's site, download and install software with a click of 1 or 2 buttons.
Of course, IMHO, the best place to get the software is from the distributor whenever possible, since everything there has some quality check, there's a single place to get support.
That wasn't quite my point. I was trying to get at the fact that, OK, double clicking setup.exe is easy, but the overhead of keeping up to date with all your 3rd party software is tedious and a significant administrative overhead. And I wasn't trying to say your mum's not capable of it either, I'm sure she's a fine and thoughtful lady. I was just suggesting that I'm sure both she and you would prefer it if she didn't have the headache of managing the updates herself for each application in which she's interested.
You get that the whole point is to have a "single sign on," right? And that the problem with Passport is that there is only one possible provider (Microsoft)? OpenID lets anyone be the identity provider. If you want your email to be your signon, just ask your email provider to support openID. It's can only be good news if large sites with lots of users become openID identity providers rather than each company developing their own identity system.
Sure, she can do the install, but what about getting updates and bug and security fixes? And what of spyware?
I much prefer (as do my sister and mother) the simplicity of going to the Applications menu and clicking the entry for "Add/Remove...". You can browse around or search for a particular program by type or name. Click a checkbox, click OK, it's installed, unclick a checkbox, click OK, it's gone from your computer.
#9 Allow users to install (non-setuid) software to their home directory without the need to gain administrative privileges
#10 When a 3rd party package is installed, it should connect the packages manager up to the 3rd party's repository for updates
#11 #9 and #10 should integrate.
These should be reasonably possible with a complete enough platform and a guaranteed set of packages that 3rd parties can expect to depend upon.
Huh... that's the exact setup I have. Here's what I did:
Plug in the XP drive (make it the master drive), install XP. shutdown, unplug the XP drive. Plug in the (blank) linux drive (making it the master), install linux (Ubuntu, for example) as usual, shutdown. Plug in the XP drive, this time making it the slave. Boot up, linux will show up (as expected). Tweak the grub conf (/boot/grub/menu.lst) file like so:
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
I put that bit near the top of the file and windows boots normally, thinking it's on the IDE master drive.
It's not an English name, so while there may be a generally accepted spelling, there is no single "correct" rendering in English.
URL or you're lying.
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait killed roughly 200 Kuwaitis. In the war that followed, we killed 25000 Iraqis and the coalition lost about 378.
For the intents and purposes of this argument, yes. Not to mention, CEOs generally own a lot of stock in the companies they run, so in a real sense, it is their "own" company.
I think you mean the babylonian number system.
I guess when you run your own multi-billion dollar corporation, you can run it the way you like.
Meh. Class warfare is so passe.
Under his leadership, Goldman-Sachs made $9.5 billion. Sure the employees pick the investments and do the work, but he's "at the helm." I see no problem with a bonus of roughly 0.5% of earnings going to the person in charge.