They assume a certain level of knowledge in their readers. And in this case, its a damn reasonable one. Is this your first time on slashdot or something?
No its a problem with an easy solution.
You people seem to think that packages are the only way to install software.
Do you know what the real easiest way is for a vendor to setup a universal installer? A perl script. Have the distros set new environment variables, that are standardised, that point to all the relevant directories, and the presence of such and such necessary libraries. The perl script checks these, and installs as appropriate. Done.
No revamping distro design. No loss of variety or choice in Linux. Just a slight amount of effort and collaboration between developers and distro managers on what environment variables need to be created, so the install script can find what it needs.
I like how it refers to GNOME and KDE as different versions of Linux. Idiot article.
GNOME and KDE are not a source of the problem. GNOME applications work perfectly under KDE and vice versa. The author was just making crap up.
You're off the rocker on this one.
I have a huge amount of work related email traffic, that has to cross multiple domains, its not just in-house email on a LAN that doesn't require the top level DNS servers, that would amount to a few hundred dollars a year at that rate.
How about not.
Didn't say it was easy or trivial (its not). But it is humanly possible. As long as we expect crap from these companies and their programmers that is what they will deliver.
Works fine in 1.0.7 Linux.
You people all complaining about crashes, how many 3rd party extensions are you using? I would bet thats the problem, as like the other poster, I've never had firefox crash.
This is why one should not use windows. Any OS that allows for unauthorized software installation is a piece of crap (oh wait, only one OS does that).
I would definitely open suit against whatever company published the disc for that.
What I find amazing is the end of TFA. After the whole spiel about how recen movies have sucked, they go on about how they're waiting for the highly publicized "blockbusters" to bail them out, the exact same thing they've been doing with all these shitty movies. "Yeah we suck, but we're totally not gonna do anything about it."
Wait what?
That doesn't make any sense.
Applications in linux are all made by 3rd party developers. Its rare for any two seperate projects in the same distro (i use the term project rather than application since DEs like KDE or GNOME come packaged with many apps some of them worked on by the same people) to be made by the same people.
Windows doesn't give any room for 3rd party developers to do anything--unless they pay out the nose for it. Linux on the other hand, you have all the dev tools and everything with the OS, for no extra charge (if you were even charged in th first place). That's not reducing the software developer, that empowering the software developer.
MS, with its high barrier to entry for casual developers is what is reducing software development.
Not a fair comparison. Windows uses less RAM, but always has a pagefile (swap) greater than 100 MB for me.
That said, a friend of mine was plagued by severe memory leaks in 3.3 (they may have been fixed in 3.4, i don't know).
Exactly.
If you're shelling out going to a grad school for undergrad you're making a mistake.
My tuition is about $4500 per year.
But this is the #2 undergrad Comp Sci university in the nation.
Why?
Because there is a very a limited graduate program.
Only the most brilliant of undergrads actually benefit from being surrounded by a major graduate program (because they just go and start working in the research labs). Everyone else is better off at a primarily undergrad institution. Especially if they're doing grad school afterwards anyway.
Yes, and no.
Yes to your exact question, no to your implied extension of its meaning.
In the case of pool, we know all the specific rules under which the balls behave. The behavoir is predictable. We can predict their exact motion given sufficient information about the initial state of the system. In the case of people, we do not have basic mathematical relationships detailing how they behave. However, there is a difference between truly unpredictable (i.e. random) and unpredictable in the weaker sense that we simply lack the knowledge necessary to make the relevant prediction. These are not the same thing.
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They assume a certain level of knowledge in their readers. And in this case, its a damn reasonable one. Is this your first time on slashdot or something?
Execpt that it was neither. That said, Mahony should be strung up.
'twould be the definition of crapware, yes?
UnionFS ought to do the trick.
Why would anyone give that man the benefit of the doubt after B&W and Fable? He promises the moon, and delivers a hunk of limburgher every time.
No its a problem with an easy solution. You people seem to think that packages are the only way to install software. Do you know what the real easiest way is for a vendor to setup a universal installer? A perl script. Have the distros set new environment variables, that are standardised, that point to all the relevant directories, and the presence of such and such necessary libraries. The perl script checks these, and installs as appropriate. Done. No revamping distro design. No loss of variety or choice in Linux. Just a slight amount of effort and collaboration between developers and distro managers on what environment variables need to be created, so the install script can find what it needs.
I like how it refers to GNOME and KDE as different versions of Linux. Idiot article. GNOME and KDE are not a source of the problem. GNOME applications work perfectly under KDE and vice versa. The author was just making crap up.
You're off the rocker on this one. I have a huge amount of work related email traffic, that has to cross multiple domains, its not just in-house email on a LAN that doesn't require the top level DNS servers, that would amount to a few hundred dollars a year at that rate. How about not.
Agreed. There is no reason for a government tax on email, much less a UN tax.
They want to tax e-mail? The UN wants to tax email.... Well they can go straight to hell.
Same here, no crash in Slackware with FF 1.0.7
You're an idiot.
That last one should be the biggie, IMHO. Managing open source projects, motivation. Spend the last two or 3 weeks on that.
Didn't say it was easy or trivial (its not). But it is humanly possible. As long as we expect crap from these companies and their programmers that is what they will deliver.
Perfect software is possible, with due diligence. I submit TeX into evidence.
Works fine in 1.0.7 Linux. You people all complaining about crashes, how many 3rd party extensions are you using? I would bet thats the problem, as like the other poster, I've never had firefox crash.
This is why one should not use windows. Any OS that allows for unauthorized software installation is a piece of crap (oh wait, only one OS does that). I would definitely open suit against whatever company published the disc for that.
I would like to know how you think you can cap upload at 0 in azureus, when setting it to 0 means unlimited upload rate?
What I find amazing is the end of TFA. After the whole spiel about how recen movies have sucked, they go on about how they're waiting for the highly publicized "blockbusters" to bail them out, the exact same thing they've been doing with all these shitty movies. "Yeah we suck, but we're totally not gonna do anything about it."
unless it was Perl, not php. Then he just missed the "" on NetHack.
Wait what? That doesn't make any sense. Applications in linux are all made by 3rd party developers. Its rare for any two seperate projects in the same distro (i use the term project rather than application since DEs like KDE or GNOME come packaged with many apps some of them worked on by the same people) to be made by the same people. Windows doesn't give any room for 3rd party developers to do anything--unless they pay out the nose for it. Linux on the other hand, you have all the dev tools and everything with the OS, for no extra charge (if you were even charged in th first place). That's not reducing the software developer, that empowering the software developer. MS, with its high barrier to entry for casual developers is what is reducing software development.
I feel sad that I may be the only /.-er that got that. Very sad.
Not a fair comparison. Windows uses less RAM, but always has a pagefile (swap) greater than 100 MB for me. That said, a friend of mine was plagued by severe memory leaks in 3.3 (they may have been fixed in 3.4, i don't know).
Exactly. If you're shelling out going to a grad school for undergrad you're making a mistake. My tuition is about $4500 per year. But this is the #2 undergrad Comp Sci university in the nation. Why? Because there is a very a limited graduate program. Only the most brilliant of undergrads actually benefit from being surrounded by a major graduate program (because they just go and start working in the research labs). Everyone else is better off at a primarily undergrad institution. Especially if they're doing grad school afterwards anyway.
Yes, and no. Yes to your exact question, no to your implied extension of its meaning. In the case of pool, we know all the specific rules under which the balls behave. The behavoir is predictable. We can predict their exact motion given sufficient information about the initial state of the system. In the case of people, we do not have basic mathematical relationships detailing how they behave. However, there is a difference between truly unpredictable (i.e. random) and unpredictable in the weaker sense that we simply lack the knowledge necessary to make the relevant prediction. These are not the same thing.