so claiming the 'wrong' statistic of a 90% dropoff is different to the statistic of 'half of slashdot' how? if you are going to cry foul about abuse of statistics, don't do it yourself.
that isn't the point. microsoft seem fine with the bsd-like licenses (just look into the contents of ftp.exe). they are against the gpl-like licenses, since they can't just give token credit to the original author, make their own.. er.. 'improvements' and close the code up to force difficulty in interoperability. the fact that bsd is an open license isn't under discussion here.
i wish i had mod points at this time, but i'll just settle for saying that that was, without a doubt, the best come-back i have seen in a *very* long time:)
damn straight! those other classes with their fancy "weapons" and trinkets an such.... bah! a good punch in the groin from a high level monk is all you need in almost any battle!:)
i think i see a fork coming along. still a 'community' version, but based on the supposedly more conservative enterprise codebase (whatever the last freely available gpl version is i suppose). either that or someone will take the current community version and strip it back to be a 'lean stable' version and build from there.
i don't have a problem with mysql closing off their enterprise version (provided they still obey the gpl properly) but i don't think it is a very bright idea, since they can't call back the older 'enterprise' releases, and someone out there will take it upon themselves to start improving it.
yeah, you got me. looks like i'd better admit to the canonical team that i've been stealing their ubuntu images off the bittorrent links they so carelessly post on their main download pages.... shame on me...
and how is this any different from following all those guides out there that document how to use the windows registry to fine-tune performance? just because there is an option to change atime settings doesn't mean that it is a requirement to do so just to 'use linux on the desktop'
sorry, but i'm sick to death of these sorts of claims. actually try to use it before you start making claims such as this.
no, i think you were right the first time. anyone who claims otherwise is just wanting you to 'test' the theory by leaving them with a glass of beer...
i actually read somewhere that it was more a mistranslation than anything. i might be wrong but i heard that the original text could have just as easily been translated into 'young woman' as 'virgin'. not sure where i got it from though, so take it with a grain of salt.
as someone working at a school having to help kiddies who come in with their works documents wanting to use them here on office, i can tell you with confidence that that statement is a load of shit. even if you can manage to get office to load the files (extremely rare) the look of disappointment on their faces when they see what a mess it has made of their 'masterpiece' is all too common. yes, the problem mainly occurs when they use borders and backgrounds and who knows what other garish elements, but isn't that the type of 'home user' that works is supposed to be targeted at?
you realise that this means you are using the computer on average less than an hour a day and it chews up half the battery? not 'great' battery life i'm afraid. especially as you 10-15 mins work probably isn't too cpu intensive (i may be wrong there though).
the way i see it, 'surprising' people with new features might be great if you want the people at home to go 'ooh, look at this new fizdangle!', but people working seriously with it would prefer to know it has been tested in the real world and has stood up to all the initial reservations, criticisms and changes that most new technologies go through before throwing it into production.
this is the reason why, for example, very few linux distributions have things like compiz/beryl enabled by default. some of them do, and that pleases the early adopters who like to see new 'surprises' without much fuss. most, however leave the 'sane' and well tested defaults so that people don't get the nasty surprises that often come with new surprises (take that, grammar nazis!).
this is also why you have people talking about products like windows: "i'm not touching it till at least SP1 comes out" and so on: they might like some of the new features, but they aren't willing to risk the 'nasty surprises' and prefer to wait till it has been running in the real world to 'iron out' the problems for a while.
speaking as someone who *has* perused that wonderful piece of internet real estate, i can say quite confidently that the *only* thing that his 'theories' predict is that his 'theories' are important for predicting things. apparently his theories can be used to figure out how to cure cancer and stop violence too, but in his self acknowledged infinite wisdom he hasn't deemed it appropriate to tell us how yet. still, its fun for a laugh for a while:)
for those who are still interested in such things, another site: fixedearth.com is similar, although it seems this guy has at least *tried* to do some research.
actually, it won't *quite* work as well as 'rm -rf/', as 'rm -rf./*' will not delete anything starting with a period (.) (and i think any other non-alphanumeric characters). i think this is due to it being more like regular expressions rather than a 'wildcard' like in windows, but i may be wrong. it would need to be accompanied by 'rm -rf./.*' or 'rm -rf.*' to get the files and directories starting with a period.
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so claiming the 'wrong' statistic of a 90% dropoff is different to the statistic of 'half of slashdot' how? if you are going to cry foul about abuse of statistics, don't do it yourself.
that isn't the point. microsoft seem fine with the bsd-like licenses (just look into the contents of ftp.exe). they are against the gpl-like licenses, since they can't just give token credit to the original author, make their own.. er.. 'improvements' and close the code up to force difficulty in interoperability. the fact that bsd is an open license isn't under discussion here.
i wish i had mod points at this time, but i'll just settle for saying that that was, without a doubt, the best come-back i have seen in a *very* long time :)
i think a 'natalie portman up for auction on ebay' might have a larger effect though :)
damn straight! those other classes with their fancy "weapons" and trinkets an such.... bah! a good punch in the groin from a high level monk is all you need in almost any battle! :)
um... slashdot, remember?
maybe your feeble human-maths says so, but bistro-maths is becoming much more in vogue these days....
i think i see a fork coming along. still a 'community' version, but based on the supposedly more conservative enterprise codebase (whatever the last freely available gpl version is i suppose). either that or someone will take the current community version and strip it back to be a 'lean stable' version and build from there.
:)
i don't have a problem with mysql closing off their enterprise version (provided they still obey the gpl properly) but i don't think it is a very bright idea, since they can't call back the older 'enterprise' releases, and someone out there will take it upon themselves to start improving it.
i think.
porl
yeah, you got me. looks like i'd better admit to the canonical team that i've been stealing their ubuntu images off the bittorrent links they so carelessly post on their main download pages.... shame on me...
and how is this any different from following all those guides out there that document how to use the windows registry to fine-tune performance? just because there is an option to change atime settings doesn't mean that it is a requirement to do so just to 'use linux on the desktop'
sorry, but i'm sick to death of these sorts of claims. actually try to use it before you start making claims such as this.
no, i think you were right the first time. anyone who claims otherwise is just wanting you to 'test' the theory by leaving them with a glass of beer...
i actually read somewhere that it was more a mistranslation than anything. i might be wrong but i heard that the original text could have just as easily been translated into 'young woman' as 'virgin'. not sure where i got it from though, so take it with a grain of salt.
as someone working at a school having to help kiddies who come in with their works documents wanting to use them here on office, i can tell you with confidence that that statement is a load of shit. even if you can manage to get office to load the files (extremely rare) the look of disappointment on their faces when they see what a mess it has made of their 'masterpiece' is all too common. yes, the problem mainly occurs when they use borders and backgrounds and who knows what other garish elements, but isn't that the type of 'home user' that works is supposed to be targeted at?
storing data *using* samba and storing data *in* samba are two different things.
what about the old .plan files? isn't a 'blog' essentially a html version of these?
you realise that this means you are using the computer on average less than an hour a day and it chews up half the battery? not 'great' battery life i'm afraid. especially as you 10-15 mins work probably isn't too cpu intensive (i may be wrong there though).
you think this is a negative?
the way i see it, 'surprising' people with new features might be great if you want the people at home to go 'ooh, look at this new fizdangle!', but people working seriously with it would prefer to know it has been tested in the real world and has stood up to all the initial reservations, criticisms and changes that most new technologies go through before throwing it into production.
this is the reason why, for example, very few linux distributions have things like compiz/beryl enabled by default. some of them do, and that pleases the early adopters who like to see new 'surprises' without much fuss. most, however leave the 'sane' and well tested defaults so that people don't get the nasty surprises that often come with new surprises (take that, grammar nazis!).
this is also why you have people talking about products like windows: "i'm not touching it till at least SP1 comes out" and so on: they might like some of the new features, but they aren't willing to risk the 'nasty surprises' and prefer to wait till it has been running in the real world to 'iron out' the problems for a while.
i'm too lazy to check the two versions. can you give me a diff of them?
oh dear that was bad...
wait, your wife is writing your thesis now?? :)
i don't much care...
did you ever submit a bug report or feature request?
speaking as someone who *has* perused that wonderful piece of internet real estate, i can say quite confidently that the *only* thing that his 'theories' predict is that his 'theories' are important for predicting things. apparently his theories can be used to figure out how to cure cancer and stop violence too, but in his self acknowledged infinite wisdom he hasn't deemed it appropriate to tell us how yet. still, its fun for a laugh for a while :)
for those who are still interested in such things, another site: fixedearth.com is similar, although it seems this guy has at least *tried* to do some research.
that's what i was saying. it was 'rm -rf ./*' that doesnt seem to work so well.
actually, it won't *quite* work as well as 'rm -rf /', as 'rm -rf ./*' will not delete anything starting with a period (.) (and i think any other non-alphanumeric characters). i think this is due to it being more like regular expressions rather than a 'wildcard' like in windows, but i may be wrong. it would need to be accompanied by 'rm -rf ./.*' or 'rm -rf .*' to get the files and directories starting with a period.