It's Google Squared, not plain Google. If you search for something the results of which cannot be reasonably be put into a table of things and facts about them, you're not likely to get good results. A lot of people don't seem to be catching onto this. For example, in TFA, the guy searches for "atomic weights of elements", gets results which are half elements and half things like "Melting point", which have nonsense columns that are empty in most cases, and then has to add an "atomic weight" column anyway (he didn't explicitly state this, but the column in his picture is all lowercase, and the ones Google adds aren't like that). The right way to use it is to search for just "elements" and then add an "atomic weight" column to that. Doing it this way gets only actual elements, and default columns that make sense ("Boiling Point", "Melting Point", and "Crystal System" for me) and have information for every row.
Obviously that's because you're searching for the wrong things. It simply can't be bothered to gather good information for such trivial matters. If you search for something worthwhile, the superiority of Google Squared quickly becomes apparent.
Search for "list of pokemon" on Wolfram Alpha, and you get this pathetic sight. On the other hand, if you put the same query into Google Squared, add a couple of suggested columns, and maybe a Pokemon or two you want specific information on, and it gives you something that's actually useful.
Nice job completely missing the point. If there were an award for such a thing, you'd probably win it for this article.
My point is that there's no reason why people should be able to use software as much as they please, but things suddenly become magically different when it's used by a company. Or rather, used by people in the company; the company itself is but a legal construct and incapable of using software. You don't see whiny free software advocates complaining about people running giant Linux clusters without giving anything of any sort back, or about people using FOSS for profit (as long as they're not doing it for a company). It's just "oh it's a company this is completely different for no reason whatsoever".
Unless he can come up with a damn good reason for why there should be such a distinction, my point stands.
But none of them will ever contribute back as much as they get, because the entire reason they went with Open Source in the first place was so they could get all the development work without having to pay for it.
And do you contribute back as much as you get to all the FOSS projects whose software you use? I know I sure as fuck don't. Either you're being impressively hypocritical or you're Programming Jesus. Even Stallman can't make such a ridiculous claim. By your standards we're all a bunch of heartless assholes leeching off the poor, defenseless Free Software projects by daring to use them without being a major member of their development teams.
The OP is quite clearly thinking only of the "free as in beer" sense.
Yes they are. They want companies to contribute patches to help develop/maintain these free software packages.
Again, I don't agree with it, but to call wanting major corporations with large development resources to give a bit back, something that benefits all users of the software, 'the developers wanting compensation', is at best very questionable and misleading wording (though I do not think he was intentionally doing so).
No, you don't seem to be very clear on this. While I don't agree with these complaints, you are blatantly wrong on three counts. First, it is not the community as a whole, it is a subset of it, and a tiny one at that. Second, free as in speech, not as in beer. Third, they aren't asking for "compensation".
In reality, though, DNS has lost much of its original importance. This becomes clear when you consider that all but a handful of Alexa's top 20 sites have names that have no real connection to the business. They're just rarely used words that lack much meaning in everyday life (Google, Amazon) or entirely made up (wikipedia, ebay).
These two things have absolutely fucking nothing to do with each other. It is still very important, unless you are asserting that everyone knows the IP addresses of those top 20 sites by heart. The point of DNS never was and never will be just to provide lookups for common English words. I have no idea where you got this idea, but it is painfully wrong and thus so is anything based upon it.
It said "platformers", not "fighters". The vast, vast majority of 2D platformers have simple control schemes, even more so than 3D ones. You seem to have a case of some sort of bizarre anti-nostalgia. Please go play Super Mario or Mega Man or something like that and readjust your flawed view of reality.
Most of your post seems to be confusing "about some aspect of the human condition" with "catering to some aspect of the human condition", some of it is just taking mine entirely too seriously (should I have wrapped my post in <humor level="20%"> for the subtlety-imparied?), and towards the end you just sort of bizarrely veer off into calling me an elitist (I very much figured my post would get the exact opposite response). Also I never even mentioned "art" of any sort so I'm not sure where the fuck you got that.
Overall your post is very bad and you should feel bad about it.:(
I hope next time I see one of your posts it will be a better post or I may begin coming to the conclusion that you are not a very bright person.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you, but they've been lying to you. Not every single work of fiction is some deep allegory for some aspect of the human condition. Pong is not about the futility of existence. Your favorite porn video, that one with the really great anal scene, is not about sexism in modern culture. And Terminator is not about anything but blowing shit up and causal loops.
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.
No, there should be no period before it is released, there is no part of the story missing, and it should not be discussed except to say that you are plainly *wrong*. Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to use GPL code in their routers. As the GP said, they understood, or at least should've, their obligations with regard to using GPL'd code. Either way, they have no excuse for not following them.
If *I* were a major Cisco client, and this caused any security problems, I'd be furious about them using modified versions of other people's code in their product and refusing to follow the terms allowing them to use that code to try to cover up security holes *they* introduced (though regardless, I doubt that was their intent).
I agree that it may be slightly annoying that we can't do anything in public without a camera in our faces... but it's public. I don't go outside with the expectation of not being seen.
"Public" does not mean "anyone anywhere on the globe can see it", and it never has. Unfortunately, things seem to be heading that way. Eventually, society is going to realize that their perception of "public" and the actual reality of it are no longer the same, and one of the two is going to have to change.
I apologize for failing to notice, in my haste, that the OP was in fact you. I suppose my post should be a bit more dripping in half-amused contempt, but sadly Slashdot does not allow any sort of editing of existing posts.
I'm not defending this and made not even the slightest indication that I am. On the contrary, I think it's pretty goddamn horrible. However, the OP quite clearly thinks the problem (or at least part of it) is that we need guns! More guns! Guns for everyone! And that's just blatantly retarded, especially coming from an American ("do things like us and you can have a nice government free of corruption like us!").
He also seems to think we're going to be going after the Jews shortly, but I've chosen to overlook that.
Doing better than your health care system, at least for another year or too.
HAH
(No, that does not warrant any more of a response)
You should've read further, there's this hilarious bit:
Don't get me wrong, I like Ubuntu and have it running on a home system. But unless a major manufacturer starts preinstalling it it's going to be confined to the Linux enthusiast and the hobbyist market.
You'd figure at least someone who likes Ubuntu and runs it themselves would have known that Dell has been offering systems with Ubuntu preinstalled for two years now.
If you need him explicitly stating that it's a joke to know that it is, you're not just an asshole, you're an idiot too.
And who are you to decide that someone has "serious problems" just because they like something you disapprove of? It's not like having serious depression or OCD; it doesn't negatively affect her in any way, except perhaps in that she can't talk to fine, upstanding, moralistic assholes like you about such things.
This seems to be because you haven't the slightest clue of such things.
Tab processes must have some way to access global data and state. A shared memory approach is quite likely.
Only if they're utter retards. The contents of the tabs should not need to communicate with the rest of the browser much, and thus using message passing with no shared memory at all would result in negligible performance impact.
So now, instead of a tab crash directly bringing down others, you just hope that nothing scary happens to the shared memory area. You also hope that your "crash" isn't some other failure like a deadlock - suddenly everything else hangs trying to get the mutex for the global bits? What if a plugin gets exploited in just one tab? Then the exploit code can use its unsandboxed state to fuck you over just like normal?
Addressed above; no sane solution would have these problems.
Maybe they'll use some kind of messaging passing instead. Blazing fast I'm sure.
Also addressed above; due to the tabs being largely independent of the rest of the browser, I'm sure it'll be plenty fast too.
What do we gain here? Less crashing due to shoddy code?
I'm sorry not everyone can be a Real Programmer like you, but most of us tend to make mistakes every now and then, especially on codebases with hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code. Furthermore, even if they were Real Programmers instead of mere mortals and never made mistakes, there's still the very important fact that they don't have control over all the code that runs in the browser. There are these things called plugins, perhaps you have heard of them? In particular, Flash tends to be pretty shitty.
A huge chunk of such flaws end up being exploitable. We get more overhead and marginal security/stability benefit
You get more overhead and significant benefits.
as a band-aid for not using a language that is at least a bit provable.
Have fun looking down upon those ignorant fools from within your ivory tower, the rest of us have to live in the real world.
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It's Google Squared, not plain Google. If you search for something the results of which cannot be reasonably be put into a table of things and facts about them, you're not likely to get good results. A lot of people don't seem to be catching onto this. For example, in TFA, the guy searches for "atomic weights of elements", gets results which are half elements and half things like "Melting point", which have nonsense columns that are empty in most cases, and then has to add an "atomic weight" column anyway (he didn't explicitly state this, but the column in his picture is all lowercase, and the ones Google adds aren't like that). The right way to use it is to search for just "elements" and then add an "atomic weight" column to that. Doing it this way gets only actual elements, and default columns that make sense ("Boiling Point", "Melting Point", and "Crystal System" for me) and have information for every row.
Obviously that's because you're searching for the wrong things. It simply can't be bothered to gather good information for such trivial matters. If you search for something worthwhile, the superiority of Google Squared quickly becomes apparent.
Search for "list of pokemon" on Wolfram Alpha, and you get this pathetic sight. On the other hand, if you put the same query into Google Squared, add a couple of suggested columns, and maybe a Pokemon or two you want specific information on, and it gives you something that's actually useful .
Computer science shouldn't be on that list; despite the terribly misleading name, it's not science, it's math.
Nice job completely missing the point. If there were an award for such a thing, you'd probably win it for this article.
My point is that there's no reason why people should be able to use software as much as they please, but things suddenly become magically different when it's used by a company. Or rather, used by people in the company; the company itself is but a legal construct and incapable of using software. You don't see whiny free software advocates complaining about people running giant Linux clusters without giving anything of any sort back, or about people using FOSS for profit (as long as they're not doing it for a company). It's just "oh it's a company this is completely different for no reason whatsoever".
Unless he can come up with a damn good reason for why there should be such a distinction, my point stands.
Oh, the irony.
And do you contribute back as much as you get to all the FOSS projects whose software you use? I know I sure as fuck don't. Either you're being impressively hypocritical or you're Programming Jesus. Even Stallman can't make such a ridiculous claim. By your standards we're all a bunch of heartless assholes leeching off the poor, defenseless Free Software projects by daring to use them without being a major member of their development teams.
Vocal minorities are still minorities.
The OP is quite clearly thinking only of the "free as in beer" sense.
Again, I don't agree with it, but to call wanting major corporations with large development resources to give a bit back, something that benefits all users of the software, 'the developers wanting compensation', is at best very questionable and misleading wording (though I do not think he was intentionally doing so).
No, you don't seem to be very clear on this. While I don't agree with these complaints, you are blatantly wrong on three counts. First, it is not the community as a whole, it is a subset of it, and a tiny one at that. Second, free as in speech, not as in beer. Third, they aren't asking for "compensation".
These two things have absolutely fucking nothing to do with each other. It is still very important, unless you are asserting that everyone knows the IP addresses of those top 20 sites by heart. The point of DNS never was and never will be just to provide lookups for common English words. I have no idea where you got this idea, but it is painfully wrong and thus so is anything based upon it.
It said "platformers", not "fighters". The vast, vast majority of 2D platformers have simple control schemes, even more so than 3D ones. You seem to have a case of some sort of bizarre anti-nostalgia. Please go play Super Mario or Mega Man or something like that and readjust your flawed view of reality.
Most of your post seems to be confusing "about some aspect of the human condition" with "catering to some aspect of the human condition", some of it is just taking mine entirely too seriously (should I have wrapped my post in <humor level="20%"> for the subtlety-imparied?), and towards the end you just sort of bizarrely veer off into calling me an elitist (I very much figured my post would get the exact opposite response). Also I never even mentioned "art" of any sort so I'm not sure where the fuck you got that.
Overall your post is very bad and you should feel bad about it. :(
I hope next time I see one of your posts it will be a better post or I may begin coming to the conclusion that you are not a very bright person.
I hate to have to be the one to break this to you, but they've been lying to you. Not every single work of fiction is some deep allegory for some aspect of the human condition. Pong is not about the futility of existence. Your favorite porn video, that one with the really great anal scene, is not about sexism in modern culture. And Terminator is not about anything but blowing shit up and causal loops.
I am a bipedal robot, you insensitive clod!
No, it can't. From the OSD:
No, there should be no period before it is released, there is no part of the story missing, and it should not be discussed except to say that you are plainly *wrong*. Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to use GPL code in their routers. As the GP said, they understood, or at least should've, their obligations with regard to using GPL'd code. Either way, they have no excuse for not following them.
If *I* were a major Cisco client, and this caused any security problems, I'd be furious about them using modified versions of other people's code in their product and refusing to follow the terms allowing them to use that code to try to cover up security holes *they* introduced (though regardless, I doubt that was their intent).
I, on the other hand, am holding a half-finished, two liter bottle of Coke in my hand at this very moment.
And I don't really care. Who needs muscles anyway?
"Public" does not mean "anyone anywhere on the globe can see it", and it never has. Unfortunately, things seem to be heading that way. Eventually, society is going to realize that their perception of "public" and the actual reality of it are no longer the same, and one of the two is going to have to change.
I apologize for failing to notice, in my haste, that the OP was in fact you. I suppose my post should be a bit more dripping in half-amused contempt, but sadly Slashdot does not allow any sort of editing of existing posts.
I'm not defending this and made not even the slightest indication that I am. On the contrary, I think it's pretty goddamn horrible. However, the OP quite clearly thinks the problem (or at least part of it) is that we need guns! More guns! Guns for everyone! And that's just blatantly retarded, especially coming from an American ("do things like us and you can have a nice government free of corruption like us!").
He also seems to think we're going to be going after the Jews shortly, but I've chosen to overlook that.
HAH
(No, that does not warrant any more of a response)
You should've read further, there's this hilarious bit:
You'd figure at least someone who likes Ubuntu and runs it themselves would have known that Dell has been offering systems with Ubuntu preinstalled for two years now.
So our government isn't perfect because we don't have nearly enough guns? Thanks for the helpful advice, we'll get on fixing that right away.
How's that working for keeping yours in check down there, by the way?
If you need him explicitly stating that it's a joke to know that it is, you're not just an asshole, you're an idiot too.
And who are you to decide that someone has "serious problems" just because they like something you disapprove of? It's not like having serious depression or OCD; it doesn't negatively affect her in any way, except perhaps in that she can't talk to fine, upstanding, moralistic assholes like you about such things.
There's only one person here who's an asshole, and it certainly isn't the OP.
It annoys me to see people referring to everything past FF7 as "the new ones" but not including FF7 itself in that.
You damn kids need to get off my lawn.
This seems to be because you haven't the slightest clue of such things.
Only if they're utter retards. The contents of the tabs should not need to communicate with the rest of the browser much, and thus using message passing with no shared memory at all would result in negligible performance impact.
Addressed above; no sane solution would have these problems.
Also addressed above; due to the tabs being largely independent of the rest of the browser, I'm sure it'll be plenty fast too.
I'm sorry not everyone can be a Real Programmer like you, but most of us tend to make mistakes every now and then, especially on codebases with hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code. Furthermore, even if they were Real Programmers instead of mere mortals and never made mistakes, there's still the very important fact that they don't have control over all the code that runs in the browser. There are these things called plugins, perhaps you have heard of them? In particular, Flash tends to be pretty shitty.
You get more overhead and significant benefits.
Have fun looking down upon those ignorant fools from within your ivory tower, the rest of us have to live in the real world.
And there's no reason to learn a new language just for garbage collection if you know C, because C can do memory allocation too!