Why should I actually care about open standards? Because it *might* make parts of my job easier?
The problem is Open Source is not a 'Real World' philosophy. People will always be confused by the concept and it will never catch on as much as these high school kids want it to.
I respectfully disagree, because by nature people typically take the path of least resistance. Open standards offer the path of least resistance when commonly used, take for example HTTP, FTP, etc.
The internet is built on open standards, you can disregard these standards if you like, and make proprietary format x for your people, but by doing so you both make life harder for yourself, and alienate some of your customer base, so why make things more difficult?
same with the printing industry, PDF is pretty much THE standard, and it's a completely open ISO spec, anybody who reads up can implement it.
As for open source not being 'real world' that is flawed also, there are companies making great profits on open source, and coders being paid for it.
I completely agree that oss will never completely take over the world or some such, but who said that was an aim?
Also available is 9500GT in low profile form factor, have one here in my media pc, that's about as high end you can get with that form factor from what I've seen.
Also, historically we respond suboptimally to that stuff. I mean, we invaded not one, but two countries over 9/11! Well, I believe that Iraq was more delayed by 9/11 than caused, I always felt Bush was gunning for Iraq. But it makes for a more pithy statement.;)
True, but we all know how much money that has cost the US, and can you imagine the cost of trying to fight another 2-3 countries aswell? The united states may spend the most money on their military compared to the rest of the world, but there is no way in hell they could take the rest of the world on at once, let alone half of it.
I'm sure it's quite a few, since I myself when encountering problems with oss projects have to go through a lot of source code before you get how the program is structured, and how to do what you want to.
I'm no professional, but many eyes make all problems shallow
That's just stupid. Countries don't just tolerate other countries attacking them simply because not every single citizen was involved in the attack.
of course not, but usually, you know, the government has to support the attacks generally? as opposed to having the group who purported the attacks simply being from that country
I'm sorry, but I find the virginia tech massacre comparison of grandparent valid. If the government ordered for the military to hijack the planes and crash them, that would be a completely different story.
Just because a country has a few nut jobs is not justification to go to 'war' with that country. Mind you, I completely support our troops out there (I'm not from the US) and if I'm lucky may get a chance to go there myself with the military.
Even the party that started this 'war' in the end conceded it was illegal. Some of them still think it was the right thing to do. I wouldn't be so quick to say that the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people is justified because of a small group of rogue idiots.
I'm not out to convince you either way, but I do think you should perhaps look at the other side of things sometimes, if a small group of american civilians bombed china, would it be appropriate for china to invade the US to stamp them out?
both 'unlawful combatants' and 'POWS' are afforded the protection of the geneva convention, I've had this argument with other people, and in the end the only thing that shut them up was linking to a copy with the appropriate part referenced, but people are either protected as a POW or as a civilian, there is no magical invented status whereby they are not protected.
I will hunt through the documents again if you wish, but I do have better ways to spend my time.
Because he's the engineer behind apples success, jobs was (and is) a ruthless business man taking advantage of a situation as much as he can, as good businessmen do.
The more I looked into apples history, the more it became apparent that jobs really isn't a very nice person. But that wozniak was really in it for the enjoyment and technology.
the people that have screwed over kde4 have been the ditros (looks at kubuntu & fedora) because they should have seen it wasn't really ready.
speak for yourself, I as a fedora user, find it to be a perfect developer system precisely because of the latest releases being used, qt4 and kde4 were in fedora months before other distros, that sure saves a lot of headache over downloading a compiling the lot so you can link against it.
the rest is somewhat understandable, but... cuba? For a moment I had to go and check their history, but all I see is the US repeatedly trying to invade them, the only thing that actually stopped them after several attempts was the agreement that was came to after the cuban missile crisis.
and no, 'because they chose communism' and 'we want their land' are not valid reasons for invading a country.
yes, however unlike dye based writable media, which lasts 5-10 years, pressed discs while untested, theoretically can last up to 100, slight change in length of time there, and considering he's only asking for 50 years, it's doable.
You're completely delusional. I've been using Linux since 1997, and any honest Linux user will tell you that they've taken several trips to dependency hell.
You are right, however, I have not had a dependency hell since around 2001, and the user base now is somewhat larger than what it was then, so it stands to reason that a lot of linux users will have never seen a dependency hell.
I was alas too young to vote in 99, but would gladly vote in favour of the monarchy the next time it comes to a vote.
But I do think that as the generations go by, and more people forget or just don't care to learn our past, the higher the percentage of people will vote for a republic. It will eventually win.
titles have an associated meaning to them, typically, you could call yourself MindlessAutomata ruler of the ants! and nobody would give two hoots, to be given a title from the british monarch means something.
Maybe not to you, but it isn't a typically easy thing to get, and most people would agree it takes some level of skill/achievement.
You seem to be under the impression that being a monarch would be an easy job, I propose it would not, to be a horrible monarch may be easy, but being the example of manners and and grace 24/7 while going about your business would not be an easy job.
As for 'pointless traditions' what do you think culture is?, I know the points I have raised to not delve into the more meaningful aspects of it all, but it's 8pm new years eve here, so I'll return and post a more detailed comment later perhaps.
silly question, what will you do if someone gets a copy of your fingerprint that sucessfully bypasses the biometrics? change your finger? big flaw with biometric is, when compromised, it's hard to change the secret value (without possible pain to the finger, anyway)
A new and single sound stack (valid for the next 10 years); with the added promise of discontinuing (deleting from the main tree) all the others by 2010.
There is only one kernel sound stack, alsa. What your probably referring to is userland audio bits, pulseaudio, jack, etc. Unfortunately each one has different goals and different typical uses, typical users often use pulseaudio but jack is the only real choice for musicians and people who do atypical things with audio.
a one solution fits all thing really would not fit all, it would inflict horrible pain upon those who have different usage habits than the average joe.
But still, this is not a kernel issue, the kernel has alsa, but a userland one
excellent book about programming, starts off with lower level asm programming first and later on explains what the higher level stuff like c does in assembly.
yes, however it typically would not be entirely atheists, because they wouldn't care what religion etc the others are, it would be a group that goes by another name and does other things aswell as serving the community.
An example being the Lions club international, there is no religious requirements there, only people who want to help their community, for free
I do completely agree that being a 'proper' christian does convey some very good traits, but you do not need to be a good christian to get them, only a good person.
Indeed, another style of architecture that is too expensive to be made nowadays is the Queenslander but primarily the material costs of an all hardwood house of that style are the problem. Less so labour.
Unlike stone that needs little maintenance, if they aren't given decent maintenance every few decades they can easily fall into disrepair.
Postscript printers are a far cry from your average printer for a household though, I have an a3 ps printer which recently set me back $2.2k an a4 only version costs about $1k, I see most average people spending about 1/5th that much on a crappy non post script printer.
I completely agree with you though, standardization is the key, like we're seeing with usb video, now most new usb webcams are supported out of the box etc.
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Why should I actually care about open standards? Because it *might* make parts of my job easier?
The problem is Open Source is not a 'Real World' philosophy. People will always be confused by the concept and it will never catch on as much as these high school kids want it to.
I respectfully disagree, because by nature people typically take the path of least resistance. Open standards offer the path of least resistance when commonly used, take for example HTTP, FTP, etc.
The internet is built on open standards, you can disregard these standards if you like, and make proprietary format x for your people, but by doing so you both make life harder for yourself, and alienate some of your customer base, so why make things more difficult?
same with the printing industry, PDF is pretty much THE standard, and it's a completely open ISO spec, anybody who reads up can implement it.
As for open source not being 'real world' that is flawed also, there are companies making great profits on open source, and coders being paid for it.
I completely agree that oss will never completely take over the world or some such, but who said that was an aim?
Also available is 9500GT in low profile form factor, have one here in my media pc, that's about as high end you can get with that form factor from what I've seen.
mod parent up, that would be funny as hell if they weren't real.
Lies, check out their bullshit ram prices on their site now, I dare you.
rendering a complex blender scene, it will eat as much ram as you give it, if you know how.
Also, historically we respond suboptimally to that stuff. I mean, we invaded not one, but two countries over 9/11! Well, I believe that Iraq was more delayed by 9/11 than caused, I always felt Bush was gunning for Iraq. But it makes for a more pithy statement. ;)
True, but we all know how much money that has cost the US, and can you imagine the cost of trying to fight another 2-3 countries aswell? The united states may spend the most money on their military compared to the rest of the world, but there is no way in hell they could take the rest of the world on at once, let alone half of it.
I'm sure it's quite a few, since I myself when encountering problems with oss projects have to go through a lot of source code before you get how the program is structured, and how to do what you want to.
I'm no professional, but many eyes make all problems shallow
except your obituary.
That's just stupid. Countries don't just tolerate other countries attacking them simply because not every single citizen was involved in the attack.
of course not, but usually, you know, the government has to support the attacks generally? as opposed to having the group who purported the attacks simply being from that country
I'm sorry, but I find the virginia tech massacre comparison of grandparent valid. If the government ordered for the military to hijack the planes and crash them, that would be a completely different story.
Just because a country has a few nut jobs is not justification to go to 'war' with that country. Mind you, I completely support our troops out there (I'm not from the US) and if I'm lucky may get a chance to go there myself with the military.
Even the party that started this 'war' in the end conceded it was illegal. Some of them still think it was the right thing to do. I wouldn't be so quick to say that the killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people is justified because of a small group of rogue idiots.
I'm not out to convince you either way, but I do think you should perhaps look at the other side of things sometimes, if a small group of american civilians bombed china, would it be appropriate for china to invade the US to stamp them out?
both 'unlawful combatants' and 'POWS' are afforded the protection of the geneva convention, I've had this argument with other people, and in the end the only thing that shut them up was linking to a copy with the appropriate part referenced, but people are either protected as a POW or as a civilian, there is no magical invented status whereby they are not protected.
I will hunt through the documents again if you wish, but I do have better ways to spend my time.
Because he's the engineer behind apples success, jobs was (and is) a ruthless business man taking advantage of a situation as much as he can, as good businessmen do.
The more I looked into apples history, the more it became apparent that jobs really isn't a very nice person. But that wozniak was really in it for the enjoyment and technology.
the people that have screwed over kde4 have been the ditros (looks at kubuntu & fedora) because they should have seen it wasn't really ready.
speak for yourself, I as a fedora user, find it to be a perfect developer system precisely because of the latest releases being used, qt4 and kde4 were in fedora months before other distros, that sure saves a lot of headache over downloading a compiling the lot so you can link against it.
the rest is somewhat understandable, but... cuba? For a moment I had to go and check their history, but all I see is the US repeatedly trying to invade them, the only thing that actually stopped them after several attempts was the agreement that was came to after the cuban missile crisis.
and no, 'because they chose communism' and 'we want their land' are not valid reasons for invading a country.
yes, however unlike dye based writable media, which lasts 5-10 years, pressed discs while untested, theoretically can last up to 100, slight change in length of time there, and considering he's only asking for 50 years, it's doable.
You're completely delusional. I've been using Linux since 1997, and any honest Linux user will tell you that they've taken several trips to dependency hell.
You are right, however, I have not had a dependency hell since around 2001, and the user base now is somewhat larger than what it was then, so it stands to reason that a lot of linux users will have never seen a dependency hell.
I was alas too young to vote in 99, but would gladly vote in favour of the monarchy the next time it comes to a vote.
But I do think that as the generations go by, and more people forget or just don't care to learn our past, the higher the percentage of people will vote for a republic. It will eventually win.
It has more to do with the military and economic dominance of the US.
or the fact that the british empire was the largest in the world at one point, spreading many a colony everywhere, which all spoke english.
titles have an associated meaning to them, typically, you could call yourself MindlessAutomata ruler of the ants! and nobody would give two hoots, to be given a title from the british monarch means something.
Maybe not to you, but it isn't a typically easy thing to get, and most people would agree it takes some level of skill/achievement.
You seem to be under the impression that being a monarch would be an easy job, I propose it would not, to be a horrible monarch may be easy, but being the example of manners and and grace 24/7 while going about your business would not be an easy job.
As for 'pointless traditions' what do you think culture is?, I know the points I have raised to not delve into the more meaningful aspects of it all, but it's 8pm new years eve here, so I'll return and post a more detailed comment later perhaps.
silly question, what will you do if someone gets a copy of your fingerprint that sucessfully bypasses the biometrics? change your finger? big flaw with biometric is, when compromised, it's hard to change the secret value (without possible pain to the finger, anyway)
A new and single sound stack (valid for the next 10 years); with the added promise of discontinuing (deleting from the main tree) all the others by 2010.
There is only one kernel sound stack, alsa. What your probably referring to is userland audio bits, pulseaudio, jack, etc. Unfortunately each one has different goals and different typical uses, typical users often use pulseaudio but jack is the only real choice for musicians and people who do atypical things with audio.
a one solution fits all thing really would not fit all, it would inflict horrible pain upon those who have different usage habits than the average joe.
But still, this is not a kernel issue, the kernel has alsa, but a userland one
excellent book about programming, starts off with lower level asm programming first and later on explains what the higher level stuff like c does in assembly.
here is where you can download it.
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yes, however it typically would not be entirely atheists, because they wouldn't care what religion etc the others are, it would be a group that goes by another name and does other things aswell as serving the community.
An example being the Lions club international, there is no religious requirements there, only people who want to help their community, for free
I do completely agree that being a 'proper' christian does convey some very good traits, but you do not need to be a good christian to get them, only a good person.
Indeed, another style of architecture that is too expensive to be made nowadays is the Queenslander but primarily the material costs of an all hardwood house of that style are the problem. Less so labour.
Unlike stone that needs little maintenance, if they aren't given decent maintenance every few decades they can easily fall into disrepair.
Postscript printers are a far cry from your average printer for a household though, I have an a3 ps printer which recently set me back $2.2k an a4 only version costs about $1k, I see most average people spending about 1/5th that much on a crappy non post script printer.
I completely agree with you though, standardization is the key, like we're seeing with usb video, now most new usb webcams are supported out of the box etc.