They absolutely do project file hosting, but, yes, they're mostly known for project analytics. I'm not sure if they do RCS hosting like SourceForge does, but file hosting absolutely. FileZilla, the project I mentioned, no longer consistently updates the SF.net site (if at all), and all download links on filezilla-project.org go to ohloh.net.
I don't really see this as a good thing. In my experience many of the projects on Ohloh.net are there because the maintainers were unhappy or frustrated with problems they were having at SourceForge. FileZilla, for example, kept complaining to SourceForge that the ads that showed up would always include download links to sites charging for download of FileZilla.
I suppose such projects will move to Google Code, but it's important to remember that choice is a good thing, and not everybody is happy with SourceForge.
I've heard the same complaint by Windows users new to Linux when talking about Gnome and KDE positioning the menu bar for the OS at the top of the screen. Or new Linux users when installing software complaining about the new convention of the package manager. Or the loss of the C:/D:/E: labels for disk partitions and instead having the unified logical file system present in Linux.
It's new. It's different. That doesn't make it bad. Being good with computers doesn't mean change causes you to experience *no* learning curve. The ribbon is a drastic UI improvement for most any application. It efficiently combines the toolbar buttons and the menu in a manner that makes sense. It's the most innovative thing to come out of Microsoft since... hell, probably since the Start menu. It's not perfect, of course. I didn't care for the orb myself, either, at first impression. I still think it could be better done. The ribbon is still awesome, and it makes it irritating to move back to earlier versions of Office or to OpenOffice once you've gotten used to it.
You're completely correct, but nobody here will listen. Unlike the auto industry where it can be shown that the workers are equally or better paid without unions and the end product is higher quality without unions, teacher's unions aren't so cut and dried. Teachers at charter schools or private schools are often no better or worse than those in public union schools. If unions were the problem, that would simply not be the case.
But here on Slashdot you'll find too many people beating the Libertarian and Laissez-Faire drums. While they benefit from 40 hour work weeks, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, employer health insurance, etc.
Your post is the first I've ever heard of the Media Sharing feature. I think MS will be able to handle the vast number of complaints you and the other four users of the feature will have.
In the meanwhile, the rest of us will enjoy a more secure, standards-compliant Internet. Yes, IE8 is not perfect, but it's still an improvement over IE7 and IE6.
That's entirely the problem, and the reason software firewalls are nonsensical. As nonsensical as DRM is. The second function you list is absolutely trivial to ignore.
The problem isn't unique to Windows 7. It's not even unique to Windows. The OS runs the firewall, and you often need administrator or root level access to install a program. There's no reason the install script can't access the firewall exception list and add one for itself. It doesn't matter if you're using Windows and the built-in firewall or Linux with IP tables or ufw. Root is root is root. Or do you honestly check the install script in every tarball, deb, or rpm you install on your Linux on the Desktop before you run it? Maybe you should instead check your exceptions list to ensure it's configured right instead of assuming it's configured correctly.
OH NO A ROOT OR ADMINISTRATOR PROCESS CAN FSCK WITH MY SYSTEM!!!1! Good job, Slashdot.
No comment at all on using a hacked app and finding you get locked out of it....
KDE dev team clearly couldn't be arsed to fix bugs in their own code base prior to KDE4's release. I find it doubtful they even contacted nVidia about theirs.
Yes, KDE4... what a rock-solid release that was when it hit. How well-tested, robust, and highly compatible. Why nobody in their right minds would consider KDE4 a complete failure at launch.
a) You're not supposed to manage file permissions from the command line. b) NTFS permissions are far more customizable and have far more features than POSIX style. It's the same reason PostgreSQL is more complex than a flat text file.
I agree. I don't think the report is asking "what's NASA for?" it's going to try to ask "what do we want to do with NASA?" so that resources can be planned and goals set. We know that space exploration is valuable, but there's so many possible things to do. What do we, as a people, want out of space?
We have communications satellites. We have the ISS. We have reusable space vehicles. We've done exploration satellites like Voyager. What do we want now? Mission to Mars? Base on the moon? What would such a base be established to do, specifically? Space research alone doesn't have to be the only reason anymore, and it shouldn't be. Mining maybe? Is there a service that could be provided to the US or her citizens? The first satellites did nothing but orbit and transmit a constant signal. Later satellites were used for scientific research. Then communications and GPS. Today, the average person has access to services from orbiting satellites.
How can we know what technologies we will need unless we know where we want to go? If we want to commercialize space, what should we try to do first?
They're representing the people who got them elected: lobbyists and large campaign contributors.
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For distribution on devices. And it only runs on x86 platforms.
In any case, you're still missing the point. All software is either licensed, public domain, owned by the user, or pirated. Want to put gnash on your device? You must agree to the GPL.
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You cannot redistribute Flash, or use it in a whole host of applications without licensing it from Adobe.
Huh? You can't redistribute any application without a license unless it's public domain. That's copyright. GPL is a distribution license.
It's suitable for distributing the player on installation media, for distributing the player on a whole network, or for distributing with other software through a website you manage. It pretty much covers the bases for intended uses of Flash Player for an end-user.
So as a competing manufacturer, why would you take on expenses to advertise, or even clean up, your manufacturing process?
Because you have kids and they need to live here, too? I know, I know, worrying about something other than the bottom line for current quarter is so anachronistic these days.
However, it's also nearly a tautological statement. It's not deep.
It's just ~B -> ~A therefore A -> B. No shit. It means that the universe exists and works. The same is true of any potion of the universe, including the portions that we have designed. It neither precludes nor supports the theory of an intelligently designed universe.
Even if it's solid state, there's still a physical layer, and still a logical-to-physical abstraction that an IDE disk must perform. (Slashdot pedantics will please note that here an IDE disk means a disk with an integrated electronic controller, not just a drive with an ATA interface. If you've never had to know the true physical geometry -- the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors in a disk (CHS)-- to tell your PC's BIOS or OS, you've never used a non-IDE disk. Most BIOS systems were faking CHS numbers by the time EIDE hit in 1994 which eliminated CHS in favor of LBA.)
Flash drives use NAND flash memory, which uses pages of up to about 4 KB. For the most part, you can only access a single page at a time. Additionally, sequential access within a page is almost always faster than random access. Giving the disk's integrated controller a list of values means that it can examine the queue intelligently and can perform paging operations more intelligently.
Because it destroys the value of the online community. What good would being able to play over the Internet be if your opponents could cheat and get away with it? Who'd keep playing that game? Only cheaters. Legitimate players would just play a different game.
It's the same reason Valve bans accounts on Steam.
Of course it applies to us as well. The point is, it's merely FUD until you can show that anything significant *will* happen. A lot of animals are extinct, and we seem to have adapted to their absence alright. Might it be catastrophic? Yes. Let me know when you have evidence.
This extinction event is shaping up to be unprecedented.
The only thing unprecedented about is that I'm aware of is the fact that there is significant evidence that humanity contributed to it. While there have been arguments that "the observed rate of extinction is increasing," I'm not convinced that that has to do with a problem in the wild or merely a change in our observation methods. It's estimated that three quarters of known species were eliminated 65 million years ago. Show me that the Holocene event is going to be that bad and that it will affect humanity. Don't argue from ignorance or fearmonger. Show me.
Of course that's true. But it's still a *might*. Millions of species have gone extinct. Hundreds more go extinct every year. About a dozen every day is the rate I've heard repeated. I believe over 98% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Extinction is a natural process and is, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. Very few animals have a single class of animals as predators or prey. Very few animals are alone in their particular habitats.
Unless you have proof that these species *will* cause significant effects on a given environment, it remains a "might". The same way that a meteor "might" strike the Earth and destroy all habitats, or aliens "might" come and give us the gift of interstellar space travel. Might is just might. Show me proof that these species in this class will affect humanity. Don't spread FUD. *Show* it. Why should I care about these species any more than I care about the dozen that went extinct today? Or the dozen from yesterday? Or the dozen before that? I'm 30 years old. Over 125,000 species have gone extinct in my lifetime alone. Show me proof that any one of those is going to cause catastrophic effects. I still have food, clean water, shelter, and energy. Would one of these animals improve or deter that situation? Maybe. Maybe not. Arguing from ignorance doesn't convince me that a process which already happens on a massive scale on a daily basis is cause for immediate concern.
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They absolutely do project file hosting, but, yes, they're mostly known for project analytics. I'm not sure if they do RCS hosting like SourceForge does, but file hosting absolutely. FileZilla, the project I mentioned, no longer consistently updates the SF.net site (if at all), and all download links on filezilla-project.org go to ohloh.net.
I don't really see this as a good thing. In my experience many of the projects on Ohloh.net are there because the maintainers were unhappy or frustrated with problems they were having at SourceForge. FileZilla, for example, kept complaining to SourceForge that the ads that showed up would always include download links to sites charging for download of FileZilla.
I suppose such projects will move to Google Code, but it's important to remember that choice is a good thing, and not everybody is happy with SourceForge.
Some of us live in the United States, you ethnocentric insensitive clod!
I've heard the same complaint by Windows users new to Linux when talking about Gnome and KDE positioning the menu bar for the OS at the top of the screen. Or new Linux users when installing software complaining about the new convention of the package manager. Or the loss of the C:/D:/E: labels for disk partitions and instead having the unified logical file system present in Linux.
It's new. It's different. That doesn't make it bad. Being good with computers doesn't mean change causes you to experience *no* learning curve. The ribbon is a drastic UI improvement for most any application. It efficiently combines the toolbar buttons and the menu in a manner that makes sense. It's the most innovative thing to come out of Microsoft since... hell, probably since the Start menu. It's not perfect, of course. I didn't care for the orb myself, either, at first impression. I still think it could be better done. The ribbon is still awesome, and it makes it irritating to move back to earlier versions of Office or to OpenOffice once you've gotten used to it.
You're completely correct, but nobody here will listen. Unlike the auto industry where it can be shown that the workers are equally or better paid without unions and the end product is higher quality without unions, teacher's unions aren't so cut and dried. Teachers at charter schools or private schools are often no better or worse than those in public union schools. If unions were the problem, that would simply not be the case.
But here on Slashdot you'll find too many people beating the Libertarian and Laissez-Faire drums. While they benefit from 40 hour work weeks, minimum wages, unemployment insurance, employer health insurance, etc.
Your post is the first I've ever heard of the Media Sharing feature. I think MS will be able to handle the vast number of complaints you and the other four users of the feature will have.
In the meanwhile, the rest of us will enjoy a more secure, standards-compliant Internet. Yes, IE8 is not perfect, but it's still an improvement over IE7 and IE6.
Just get Cygwin. Now you have rsync.
That's entirely the problem, and the reason software firewalls are nonsensical. As nonsensical as DRM is. The second function you list is absolutely trivial to ignore.
The problem isn't unique to Windows 7. It's not even unique to Windows. The OS runs the firewall, and you often need administrator or root level access to install a program. There's no reason the install script can't access the firewall exception list and add one for itself. It doesn't matter if you're using Windows and the built-in firewall or Linux with IP tables or ufw. Root is root is root. Or do you honestly check the install script in every tarball, deb, or rpm you install on your Linux on the Desktop before you run it? Maybe you should instead check your exceptions list to ensure it's configured right instead of assuming it's configured correctly.
OH NO A ROOT OR ADMINISTRATOR PROCESS CAN FSCK WITH MY SYSTEM!!!1! Good job, Slashdot.
No comment at all on using a hacked app and finding you get locked out of it....
KDE dev team clearly couldn't be arsed to fix bugs in their own code base prior to KDE4's release. I find it doubtful they even contacted nVidia about theirs.
Yes, KDE4... what a rock-solid release that was when it hit. How well-tested, robust, and highly compatible. Why nobody in their right minds would consider KDE4 a complete failure at launch.
Of course it looks complicated.
a) You're not supposed to manage file permissions from the command line.
b) NTFS permissions are far more customizable and have far more features than POSIX style. It's the same reason PostgreSQL is more complex than a flat text file.
I agree. I don't think the report is asking "what's NASA for?" it's going to try to ask "what do we want to do with NASA?" so that resources can be planned and goals set. We know that space exploration is valuable, but there's so many possible things to do. What do we, as a people, want out of space?
We have communications satellites. We have the ISS. We have reusable space vehicles. We've done exploration satellites like Voyager. What do we want now? Mission to Mars? Base on the moon? What would such a base be established to do, specifically? Space research alone doesn't have to be the only reason anymore, and it shouldn't be. Mining maybe? Is there a service that could be provided to the US or her citizens? The first satellites did nothing but orbit and transmit a constant signal. Later satellites were used for scientific research. Then communications and GPS. Today, the average person has access to services from orbiting satellites.
How can we know what technologies we will need unless we know where we want to go? If we want to commercialize space, what should we try to do first?
I thought they were only handing out live IPv6 addresses that were compatible with IPv4? That is 0:0:0:0:0:0:127.0.0.1 or ::127.0.0.1.
Long enough for goatse to scar me for life.
They're representing the people who got them elected: lobbyists and large campaign contributors.
For distribution on devices. And it only runs on x86 platforms.
In any case, you're still missing the point. All software is either licensed, public domain, owned by the user, or pirated. Want to put gnash on your device? You must agree to the GPL.
Huh? You can't redistribute any application without a license unless it's public domain. That's copyright. GPL is a distribution license.
As far as Adobe's Flash, they have an easy website form to obtain a standard redistribution license:
http://www.adobe.com/products/players/fpsh_distribution1.html
It's suitable for distributing the player on installation media, for distributing the player on a whole network, or for distributing with other software through a website you manage. It pretty much covers the bases for intended uses of Flash Player for an end-user.
Because you have kids and they need to live here, too? I know, I know, worrying about something other than the bottom line for current quarter is so anachronistic these days.
However, it's also nearly a tautological statement. It's not deep.
It's just ~B -> ~A therefore A -> B. No shit. It means that the universe exists and works. The same is true of any potion of the universe, including the portions that we have designed. It neither precludes nor supports the theory of an intelligently designed universe.
Same reason you play any sport. To impress girls.
Even if it's solid state, there's still a physical layer, and still a logical-to-physical abstraction that an IDE disk must perform. (Slashdot pedantics will please note that here an IDE disk means a disk with an integrated electronic controller, not just a drive with an ATA interface. If you've never had to know the true physical geometry -- the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors in a disk (CHS)-- to tell your PC's BIOS or OS, you've never used a non-IDE disk. Most BIOS systems were faking CHS numbers by the time EIDE hit in 1994 which eliminated CHS in favor of LBA.)
Flash drives use NAND flash memory, which uses pages of up to about 4 KB. For the most part, you can only access a single page at a time. Additionally, sequential access within a page is almost always faster than random access. Giving the disk's integrated controller a list of values means that it can examine the queue intelligently and can perform paging operations more intelligently.
Because it destroys the value of the online community. What good would being able to play over the Internet be if your opponents could cheat and get away with it? Who'd keep playing that game? Only cheaters. Legitimate players would just play a different game.
It's the same reason Valve bans accounts on Steam.
Have you noticed your browser is pointed at SlashDot?
Of course it applies to us as well. The point is, it's merely FUD until you can show that anything significant *will* happen. A lot of animals are extinct, and we seem to have adapted to their absence alright. Might it be catastrophic? Yes. Let me know when you have evidence.
The only thing unprecedented about is that I'm aware of is the fact that there is significant evidence that humanity contributed to it. While there have been arguments that "the observed rate of extinction is increasing," I'm not convinced that that has to do with a problem in the wild or merely a change in our observation methods. It's estimated that three quarters of known species were eliminated 65 million years ago. Show me that the Holocene event is going to be that bad and that it will affect humanity. Don't argue from ignorance or fearmonger. Show me.
Of course that's true. But it's still a *might*. Millions of species have gone extinct. Hundreds more go extinct every year. About a dozen every day is the rate I've heard repeated. I believe over 98% of all species that have ever existed are extinct. Extinction is a natural process and is, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. Very few animals have a single class of animals as predators or prey. Very few animals are alone in their particular habitats.
Unless you have proof that these species *will* cause significant effects on a given environment, it remains a "might". The same way that a meteor "might" strike the Earth and destroy all habitats, or aliens "might" come and give us the gift of interstellar space travel. Might is just might. Show me proof that these species in this class will affect humanity. Don't spread FUD. *Show* it. Why should I care about these species any more than I care about the dozen that went extinct today? Or the dozen from yesterday? Or the dozen before that? I'm 30 years old. Over 125,000 species have gone extinct in my lifetime alone. Show me proof that any one of those is going to cause catastrophic effects. I still have food, clean water, shelter, and energy. Would one of these animals improve or deter that situation? Maybe. Maybe not. Arguing from ignorance doesn't convince me that a process which already happens on a massive scale on a daily basis is cause for immediate concern.