The unstable version is pretty solid, and only has a handful of significant bugs remaining, so it's not vaporware.
However, I agree that the release cycle has been stretched way too long. There should have been at least one, possibly two major milestone releases in 2009-2010. People tried to squeeze too much into this one release.
One problem I can identify in hindsight is the mistaken belief that the introduction of unit testing would shrink the post-code-freeze time by making regression testing easier. Instead it just meant that more bugs would be discovered before release.
That is a good thing: Drupal 7.0 will certainly contain fewer undiscovered bugs than 6.0 (which had a glaring security flaw discovered almost immediately upon release). But it didn't speed up the process, and the delayed code freeze and major changes meant people spent forever on bugfixing (as well as writing unit tests, which is extra overhead).
The last major release (6.0) was in February 2008. The Drupal 7 core has been rewritten heavily along with the UI, particularly in the area of the database interface and content storage. I wouldn't be surprised if the final 7.0 release will be almost three full years after 6.0, but as far as I can tell the wait will have been worth it.
Even at our current levels of inefficiency and wastefulness, all but an insignificant amount of potentially usable energy and resources is not harnessed. The infrastructure simply does not exist to use it.
Predictions about sustainability aside, if our demand currently remotely approached the limit of available resources (let alone outstripped it by half), the economy would completely collapse. If it affected raw materials or energy, industrial growth would stagnate, prices would skyrocket and consumer culture would be dead in its tracks, with governments putting a strategic stranglehold on their remaining resources, and blocking all exports. If "natural resources" refers to biomass or arable land, enormous agricultural subsidies would not be necessary to ensure a stable price floor on produce.
This kind of crap damages the credibility of the very real ecological dangers we are facing - oil spills, rampant pollution in nations with rapid industrial growth, and resulting climate change.
LibreOffice and co. have been a barely known contender in the free Office market so far, while OO.o has the market pretty much sealed up.
After this little stunt, and if this trend continues in the future, I would be surprised if OO.o remained the office of choice in Ubuntu 11.04, or really any of the Linux distros who pride themselves on free software. Oracle is destroying its free-software products.
A naive person might ask why they bought Sun in the first place, if they are clueless about how to manage free software. A cynic would answer that they bought it in order to run OO.o, MySQL and Java into the ground.
I agree that Rupert Murdoch is one of the biggest dickwads in media outside conservative talkshows, but this article is exaggerating the danger.
Murdoch does not have a monopoly over internet news media by a long shot, and the unpopular decisions he has made (such as paywalls) are costing his companies market power.
If Murdoch tries to turn internet news into television, the internet will not become television; rather, Murdoch's internet news companies will compete with Murdoch's television networks.
1.) Patent was filed in 1993; meaning the fraudster waited till the last possible second. 2.) Patent covers a basic part of the HTML/JS spec, which is kind of like patenting a "for" loop. 3.) Lawsuit was filed in East fucking Texas.
With sufficiently complex spyware, an untrusted computer could do much damage even with a temporary access: Install applications, scrape your email, change your real password... this is only secure if the temporary access is severely restricted in what it can do with the account.
It was the commons supporting them both that really mattered.
And yet our society and our legal systems enshrine individual innovations and creations as sacred property, while suffering the very existence of a commons or a public domain barely with tolerance, denouncing it as communism.
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We'd need oil for that.
Enough to make further manned moon missions profitable? That would certainly revitalize lunar space flight... :P
(And yeah, probably not enough for even a tiny fraction of the fuel cost.)
It's so that if he steals another bike, he won't be able to hide it in an encrypted partition on his hard drive.
It is as though millions of users cried out in terror and suddenly had their torrents cut off.
The unstable version is pretty solid, and only has a handful of significant bugs remaining, so it's not vaporware.
However, I agree that the release cycle has been stretched way too long. There should have been at least one, possibly two major milestone releases in 2009-2010. People tried to squeeze too much into this one release.
One problem I can identify in hindsight is the mistaken belief that the introduction of unit testing would shrink the post-code-freeze time by making regression testing easier. Instead it just meant that more bugs would be discovered before release.
That is a good thing: Drupal 7.0 will certainly contain fewer undiscovered bugs than 6.0 (which had a glaring security flaw discovered almost immediately upon release). But it didn't speed up the process, and the delayed code freeze and major changes meant people spent forever on bugfixing (as well as writing unit tests, which is extra overhead).
Now these numbers are certainly reliable; they come from the BS Alliance!
The last major release (6.0) was in February 2008. The Drupal 7 core has been rewritten heavily along with the UI, particularly in the area of the database interface and content storage. I wouldn't be surprised if the final 7.0 release will be almost three full years after 6.0, but as far as I can tell the wait will have been worth it.
Do they accept nominations? :P
Which means they were way ahead of certain programmers in 1975.
That's very great to hear. I'm going to try out the LO beta soon; unfortunately it's not yet in the package repository.
It's not a new idea anymore.
Whether or not it's a good idea or ever will be, is a different question.
Is it Redmond Day?
WTF.
Even at our current levels of inefficiency and wastefulness, all but an insignificant amount of potentially usable energy and resources is not harnessed. The infrastructure simply does not exist to use it.
Predictions about sustainability aside, if our demand currently remotely approached the limit of available resources (let alone outstripped it by half), the economy would completely collapse. If it affected raw materials or energy, industrial growth would stagnate, prices would skyrocket and consumer culture would be dead in its tracks, with governments putting a strategic stranglehold on their remaining resources, and blocking all exports. If "natural resources" refers to biomass or arable land, enormous agricultural subsidies would not be necessary to ensure a stable price floor on produce.
This kind of crap damages the credibility of the very real ecological dangers we are facing - oil spills, rampant pollution in nations with rapid industrial growth, and resulting climate change.
There might be a tiny note at the bottom of the third page of the paper.
"Wikileaks, the spy platform led by accused rapist Julian Assange, may not have put the forces operating in Afghanistan at serious risk yet."
LibreOffice and co. have been a barely known contender in the free Office market so far, while OO.o has the market pretty much sealed up.
After this little stunt, and if this trend continues in the future, I would be surprised if OO.o remained the office of choice in Ubuntu 11.04, or really any of the Linux distros who pride themselves on free software. Oracle is destroying its free-software products.
A naive person might ask why they bought Sun in the first place, if they are clueless about how to manage free software. A cynic would answer that they bought it in order to run OO.o, MySQL and Java into the ground.
You already can't bring bottled water into an airport anyway; this won't make any difference. :P
I agree that Rupert Murdoch is one of the biggest dickwads in media outside conservative talkshows, but this article is exaggerating the danger.
Murdoch does not have a monopoly over internet news media by a long shot, and the unpopular decisions he has made (such as paywalls) are costing his companies market power.
If Murdoch tries to turn internet news into television, the internet will not become television; rather, Murdoch's internet news companies will compete with Murdoch's television networks.
I'm glad that the Lord of the Rings was filmed when this shit didn't exist yet.
Or actually, when it existed but was not considered the holy grail of film-making.
You will be Zergrushed. And then there will be cake.
1.) Patent was filed in 1993; meaning the fraudster waited till the last possible second.
2.) Patent covers a basic part of the HTML/JS spec, which is kind of like patenting a "for" loop.
3.) Lawsuit was filed in East fucking Texas.
"The ultimate scientist?" Is anyone really not aware of how much mystical bullshit he wrote?
It's only evil if you're not getting paid for it.
With sufficiently complex spyware, an untrusted computer could do much damage even with a temporary access: Install applications, scrape your email, change your real password... this is only secure if the temporary access is severely restricted in what it can do with the account.
... I can think of nobody better suited to give advice about ethics than the Pope.
And yet our society and our legal systems enshrine individual innovations and creations as sacred property, while suffering the very existence of a commons or a public domain barely with tolerance, denouncing it as communism.