In other news the government is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they are building streets (which are used to transport counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise)
also Microsoft is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they distribute Windows and Internet Explorer (which are used to put counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise on eBay)
also the postal service is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they transport counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise
but Canonical engineers have not been exclusively focusing on performance optimizations with this release
that's where I stopped reading... If they think Ubuntu Linux is written entirely by Canonical, then I don't give a shit about these Noobs' opinion on anything...
that program just echoes stdin to stdout (maybe some char manipulations) and YOU have to connect this crap to some prog, which provides the network abilities (netcat might be suitable, i guess)
is slashdot now a "the government does everything wrong"-whining platform? (go ahead, ask me if I'm new here) - governments around the world make a lot of mistakes, but in germany we have those parking-meters for a decade or so and it's really not such an indescribable imposition as the author of this article suggests...
so you walk 60 feet to much - big deal, how lazy are you?
standing in line? never had that!
$84? I never paid more than EUR8=$11.47! we pay EUR1=$1.43 per hour at most - and you only have to pay for the time between 6am and 8pm at most (usually less)
on the plus side you don't have to go feed the damn meter every hour...
$50 extra if you run out of time? that's different from today - how?
bottom line: you don't need to go crazy about every government decision - some (like this one) are not killing you, believe it or not!
These restrictions will only ever amount to temporary solutions, at best
Especially when the pirates start using anonymous p2p with obfuscation - by now it's to slow, because there aren't enough users, but if the MAFIAA is stupid enough to chase a significant amount of users in there, then they are totally done for. when anonymous p2p catches on, EVERYONE can download EVERYTHING without fear of being caught - THEN there will be so much downloading that the years around 2000 will seem like years of plenty to them.
of course they will try to outlaw anonymous p2p, but bad luck: with obfuscation you can't even find people using anonymous p2p!
personally I hope, that they are stupid enough to dig their own grave. may they rot in hell!
Using correlation-IS-causation logic we have to conclude that games make you fat. upcoming studies will analyse which game has how many calories. later we plan to include games in the food-pyramid.
other studies indicate that playing "Barbie Fashion Show" makes you young and female, whereas playing World of Warcraft makes you sad and lonely...
Don't get me wrong, I love C and I'd call myself a C-guru, but for robot-AI, it simply can't compete with golog. Artificial intelligence is best written in logical programming languages like prolog and golog is somewhat like a robot-framework for prolog (especially the situation-calculus for planning purposes kicks ass - you just say "select one of these actions", it simulates the execution of the given sourcecodes and selects one of them by a rating-function for the (simulated) situation - you just can't get that level of autonomy with an imperative programming language like C)
trust me, I've worked at the AI chair of a reputable university (we won the robocup world championship some years ago)
once i actually thought about entering one of microsofts "contests" - until I read the rules...
you MIGHT win some money, but you have to give them a FULLY FUNCTIONAL piece of software (worth months of coding), that could earn them billions at instant... and no matter if they sell it or trash it, you have to give them all the rights - just for the freakin CHANCE to win some money (if you don't - well then you wasted months of coding)
and the contest I thought about entering: the maximum price would have been 500 ($700) - and to implement my Idea decently I would have to put 2 months of coding in it... so the best I could have hoped for would have been earnings of $350/Month (I made twice that much at my job as a student assistant!)
I don't think that's a contest, thats freakin exploitation!
The major Problem is that while you are debating "you see - the fact that they shot my horse proves that my horse was faster" Microsoft wins races (and pockets the prices) for lack of competitors... you are right, but that doesn't stop them from making lots of money through the action...
If it weren't for such news, I would believe that NOBODY in the entire u.s.a. EVER had used the word "fuck"...
Making kids believe this word didn't exist seems to be the life-task for too many people there... you even feel pressured not to use it in online discussions although everyone uses it all the time in offline discussions...
You just have to love these Windows Trolls trying to downplay the exponential growth of linux' market share...
2010 they'll laugh about 2% market share
2011 they'll laugh about 4% market share
2012 they'll laugh about 8% market share
2013 they'll laugh about 16% market share
2014 they'll laugh about 32% market share
2015 they'll finally shut the hell up...
TFA is ridiculous! obviously this guy has never programmed for windows and linux and his understanding of both systems must be very limited... (it looks like he mostly counted bugzilla entries and listed the areas with the most entries... and since he didn't find complains about windows in bugs.kde.org, windows must be perfect and noone has ever had problems with it...)
what really pisses me off is the fact that he often complains about stuff that is no different or even worse in windows - "no double buffering" for example - do you think windows double-buffers the windows? no, every program has to do that on its own! or "no unified installer" WTF!? since when does windows have that? every freakin program has ITS OWN freakin installer! and windows doesn't even update its installed software automatically... instead you get 20 processes checking for updates to some product into your autostart, lagging your boot-time to infinity... "No unified configuration system for computer settings" windows has a unified configuration for core stuff (btw: how many people do you know that edit these settings manually and how many ask you for help?), but for anything above that you have to start some program and go to its options... just like in linux... "Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software" windows doesn't even have a repository - you have to manage the whole f*ckin software (including updates) yourself!
or take his complains about starting time of OOo against MSO: well MSO puts some core libs into windows autostart, so its no wonder why its faster - because its partly running all the time, even if you don't use it - wasting your ressources to create the illusion of a fast start...
What really enrages me are his complains about Qt. I have worked with enough RAD IDEs for Windows to know that Qt is FAR superior to them, because Qt has a simple intuitive interface to all aspects of modern software development - multimedia, layout management (objects changing size/position when you resize the parent window), splitters, SQL, multi-language support, multithreadding, openGL, interprocess-communication (dcop), xml, hotkey redefinition, editable and movable toolbars,... whereas in C++ Builder, Delphi, Visual Studio you can create windows, put some labels, buttons, editboxes etc in there and when it goes hardcore (the stuff from above) you can go to msdn and spend weeks of copy/pasting thousands of lines of WinAPI code that hardly work. This is exactly why linux apps are much more feature-rich although they only have (on average) a tenth of the size of their windows counterparts... because it's so damn hard to code all this stuff in windows - and thats also the main reason why windows apps often are very expensive...
and he even gives the most stupid argument of all: linux is so insecure, there are only no virii (in fact he calls them virusses) because noone uses it... well, you clueless smartass - linux holds 14% of the server market - it IS an attractive target for malware authors, but unlike you stated, linux' security model is far superior to that of Microsoft "swiss cheese" Windows...
oh and he also mentions that you might get sued because of the patents (does he work at Microsoft or what?) and that you have to pay for proprietary video codecs (which of course you get free together with your free copy of windows...)
All in all I have to say that - despite some valid complains, this is mostly BS!
"All FOSS Users and non-upgraders are Pirates!" - Thats basically what the BullShit Alliance says... Their Calculation goes like this:
piracy = software necessity per PC (estimate) * number of PCs - sold software
(see: Wikipedia)
as you can see, they just have to raise their estimates of "how much software a PC needs" to skyrocket the piracy... also they don't consider people using older versions of software, so all in all their piracy report means nothing more than "we would have wanted to sell THIS much more software!"
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In other news the government is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they are building streets (which are used to transport counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise)
also Microsoft is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they distribute Windows and Internet Explorer (which are used to put counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise on eBay)
also the postal service is being sued, because they should know, that they are enabling illegal activities and have an obligation to remedy the situation, because they transport counterfeit Louis Vuitton merchandise
that's where I stopped reading... If they think Ubuntu Linux is written entirely by Canonical, then I don't give a shit about these Noobs' opinion on anything...
as long as you don't apologize, you
yes, I have learned a bit from politicians...
man, I'm so f*cking 1337!
impressive, huh?
that program just echoes stdin to stdout (maybe some char manipulations) and YOU have to connect this crap to some prog, which provides the network abilities (netcat might be suitable, i guess)
is slashdot now a "the government does everything wrong"-whining platform? (go ahead, ask me if I'm new here) - governments around the world make a lot of mistakes, but in germany we have those parking-meters for a decade or so and it's really not such an indescribable imposition as the author of this article suggests...
so you walk 60 feet to much - big deal, how lazy are you?
standing in line? never had that!
$84? I never paid more than EUR8=$11.47! we pay EUR1=$1.43 per hour at most - and you only have to pay for the time between 6am and 8pm at most (usually less)
on the plus side you don't have to go feed the damn meter every hour...
$50 extra if you run out of time? that's different from today - how?
bottom line: you don't need to go crazy about every government decision - some (like this one) are not killing you, believe it or not!
or give her a map and tell her to go to some location. if she finds it, she's a dude...
Especially when the pirates start using anonymous p2p with obfuscation - by now it's to slow, because there aren't enough users, but if the MAFIAA is stupid enough to chase a significant amount of users in there, then they are totally done for. when anonymous p2p catches on, EVERYONE can download EVERYTHING without fear of being caught - THEN there will be so much downloading that the years around 2000 will seem like years of plenty to them.
of course they will try to outlaw anonymous p2p, but bad luck: with obfuscation you can't even find people using anonymous p2p!
personally I hope, that they are stupid enough to dig their own grave. may they rot in hell!
Using correlation-IS-causation logic we have to conclude that games make you fat. upcoming studies will analyse which game has how many calories. later we plan to include games in the food-pyramid.
other studies indicate that playing "Barbie Fashion Show" makes you young and female, whereas playing World of Warcraft makes you sad and lonely...
Don't get me wrong, I love C and I'd call myself a C-guru, but for robot-AI, it simply can't compete with golog. Artificial intelligence is best written in logical programming languages like prolog and golog is somewhat like a robot-framework for prolog (especially the situation-calculus for planning purposes kicks ass - you just say "select one of these actions", it simulates the execution of the given sourcecodes and selects one of them by a rating-function for the (simulated) situation - you just can't get that level of autonomy with an imperative programming language like C)
trust me, I've worked at the AI chair of a reputable university (we won the robocup world championship some years ago)
At our University the Computers are named after characters in 80's TV-Series
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49303203-7,00.htm it's only faster at shutting down - all other differences are hardly noticable
Robots don't need a common OS, they need a common programming-language. Golog is imho very good for this purpose...
wouldn't the open sourcecode already make the defects "not-hidden"?
once i actually thought about entering one of microsofts "contests" - until I read the rules...
you MIGHT win some money, but you have to give them a FULLY FUNCTIONAL piece of software (worth months of coding), that could earn them billions at instant... and no matter if they sell it or trash it, you have to give them all the rights - just for the freakin CHANCE to win some money (if you don't - well then you wasted months of coding) and the contest I thought about entering: the maximum price would have been 500 ($700) - and to implement my Idea decently I would have to put 2 months of coding in it... so the best I could have hoped for would have been earnings of $350/Month (I made twice that much at my job as a student assistant!) I don't think that's a contest, thats freakin exploitation!
he didn't say "win7 is done" was no news... he just said that this particular CNet article isn't a news-article, but an advertisement...
that's why it's on CNet...
yes, you're waiting for it... and waiting... and waiting...
The major Problem is that while you are debating "you see - the fact that they shot my horse proves that my horse was faster" Microsoft wins races (and pockets the prices) for lack of competitors... you are right, but that doesn't stop them from making lots of money through the action...
If it weren't for such news, I would believe that NOBODY in the entire u.s.a. EVER had used the word "fuck"...
Making kids believe this word didn't exist seems to be the life-task for too many people there... you even feel pressured not to use it in online discussions although everyone uses it all the time in offline discussions...
You just have to love these Windows Trolls trying to downplay the exponential growth of linux' market share...
2010 they'll laugh about 2% market share
2011 they'll laugh about 4% market share
2012 they'll laugh about 8% market share
2013 they'll laugh about 16% market share
2014 they'll laugh about 32% market share
2015 they'll finally shut the hell up...
TFA is ridiculous! obviously this guy has never programmed for windows and linux and his understanding of both systems must be very limited... (it looks like he mostly counted bugzilla entries and listed the areas with the most entries... and since he didn't find complains about windows in bugs.kde.org, windows must be perfect and noone has ever had problems with it...)
what really pisses me off is the fact that he often complains about stuff that is no different or even worse in windows - "no double buffering" for example - do you think windows double-buffers the windows? no, every program has to do that on its own! or "no unified installer" WTF!? since when does windows have that? every freakin program has ITS OWN freakin installer! and windows doesn't even update its installed software automatically... instead you get 20 processes checking for updates to some product into your autostart, lagging your boot-time to infinity... "No unified configuration system for computer settings" windows has a unified configuration for core stuff (btw: how many people do you know that edit these settings manually and how many ask you for help?), but for anything above that you have to start some program and go to its options... just like in linux... "Many distros' repositories do not contain all available open source software" windows doesn't even have a repository - you have to manage the whole f*ckin software (including updates) yourself!
or take his complains about starting time of OOo against MSO: well MSO puts some core libs into windows autostart, so its no wonder why its faster - because its partly running all the time, even if you don't use it - wasting your ressources to create the illusion of a fast start...
What really enrages me are his complains about Qt. I have worked with enough RAD IDEs for Windows to know that Qt is FAR superior to them, because Qt has a simple intuitive interface to all aspects of modern software development - multimedia, layout management (objects changing size/position when you resize the parent window), splitters, SQL, multi-language support, multithreadding, openGL, interprocess-communication (dcop), xml, hotkey redefinition, editable and movable toolbars,... whereas in C++ Builder, Delphi, Visual Studio you can create windows, put some labels, buttons, editboxes etc in there and when it goes hardcore (the stuff from above) you can go to msdn and spend weeks of copy/pasting thousands of lines of WinAPI code that hardly work. This is exactly why linux apps are much more feature-rich although they only have (on average) a tenth of the size of their windows counterparts... because it's so damn hard to code all this stuff in windows - and thats also the main reason why windows apps often are very expensive...
and he even gives the most stupid argument of all: linux is so insecure, there are only no virii (in fact he calls them virusses) because noone uses it... well, you clueless smartass - linux holds 14% of the server market - it IS an attractive target for malware authors, but unlike you stated, linux' security model is far superior to that of Microsoft "swiss cheese" Windows...
oh and he also mentions that you might get sued because of the patents (does he work at Microsoft or what?) and that you have to pay for proprietary video codecs (which of course you get free together with your free copy of windows...)
All in all I have to say that - despite some valid complains, this is mostly BS!
as you can see, they just have to raise their estimates of "how much software a PC needs" to skyrocket the piracy... also they don't consider people using older versions of software, so all in all their piracy report means nothing more than "we would have wanted to sell THIS much more software!"