I didnt RTFA so im not sure what is going on in Norway so im just guessing that it was somewhat similar issue as in Finland.
Majority of board was against OOXML Standard but in the end, board's decision was "yes". Why ? Board consists of big businesses, government and some other groups. 3 of the bigger companies in the board where IBM, Sun & Google and their votes where not counted because "they would vote as their head offices dictate" and thus the overall voting results from "absolutely no" where turned into "yes with clauses".
Just stating that any SWE that do not know how to use VCS and/or Bugzilla or similar application is not really worth anything. Skills like that are *essential* for any developer. And thus, getting your hands dirty with floss application of your choice is really good way to get something into your resume..
I dont claim you are wrong but you don't agree with you either - just from my personal experience.
Eversince i've been a linux user (and i've been one for quite a long time, around when first versions of slackware came out) i've paid for 3 types of software:
I've been a subscribe for vendetta approx a 8 months now and bought eschalon because demo version ran fine on my box and seemed to be really nice rpg game.
Ok, having bought 3 items in past 10 years aint much but 66% of those have been games. I'd like to mention that i'd be willing to buy more games too but been put off by quality. X2 didn't work on my machine and old loki games doesnt really interest me. I've been thinking of subscribing to Eve Online but emotions get on the way of running something on top of wine. Besides those, there just ain't good games available for linux or they arent marketed at all. Infact i was actually really suprised that i found Eschalon review on local gaming magazine and not off the internet on typical linux gaming websites..
Would be nice ofcourse.. Except there's no suitable java vm yet available for the platform afaik (atleast thats the case when i was doing some stuff on the platform - about 4 months ago)
On unrelated matter to the whole topic but related to your comment, one of Finland's biggest cable operators Welho is going to start digital downloads (iptv) during first half of the 2008. Their best bandwidth offer so far has been 10MB cable connection but on a consumer fair few months ago they announced that they will start to offer 100MB connections covering their whole network (without any need to modications to existing infrastructure except change of the enduser modem).
Finland is also one of the first nations (not the first per se) that went thru changing the whole tv broadcasting from analog to digital. This happened last autumn.
That's true but its not the problem in the technology but in the content packaging. And honest opinion, the package descriptions in specially games is really really really horrible if one doesn't have extensive gaming history knowledge =)
Only thing that was done better from the start with deps was the hook with apt repositories. FC/Redhat that has already covered but people are still stuck with old mental images of "inferior rpm".
First off, i've been using apt for Redhat since redhat 6 release.. Few package repositories provided only apt interface but since then apt and yum repo's have same backend so any apt rpm repo works now with yum too
Since version 7 fedora, i've been starting to use yum irregullary and after upgrading to fc8 and the latest yum, i've been a really happy camper with it.
- Latest yum works much faster than previous versions. - Configurability is much better with yum than with apt. 3rd party plugins can do really wonders.
And things have changed how exactly from days of when redhat was redhat and there was no fedora? Gone worse ?
Seriously. How many redhat releases there where ? 9 majors if i remember right and few.1 and.2 releases + the ee versions. So, how much time have gone into 8 fedora releases ? How and how much progress has happened in them ? Does redhat still back up fedora development, do they provide services like bugzilla/mailinglists, mirrors, what ever to fedora project ? And what about the community ? There more more 3rd party wiki pages, news sites, *RPM REPOSITORIES*, support forums and what not than there was ever provided by Redhat alone..
And you say that support has gone worse because "they dont want to support the serious users"..
So, honest question, could you actually give some real facts how things are worse now than they where ?
Sir, Chuck norris calls you bullshit. 10 Megabit cable connection (pretty standard here) gives ruffly 990kb/sec transfer depending on the sender's connection and protocol used. (For example, 990kb/sec is the top speed i can get from ftp.funet.fi which is few hops away)
Personally i never used background downloading in wow and at the time of the patch going live, there where so many seeds already available that having only 1 official seed from Blizzard didnt really matter. Comparing the "patch" downloading to x amount of Sony mmorpgs, ultima, Anarchy online and few others that i've played, i do consider WOW's to be done best and sir, you can call bullshit on that too.
I was subscriber from day 1 of eu release till last june or so and i personally *never* downloaded a patch from a mirror. And i always got download speeds of 300-900kb/sec.. roughly i'd say it was about 450kb/sec on average whenever i was downloading a patch.
http://www.versionist.com/ - quite a big community creating reggae, mainly dub and thats where the quality is but also other sub genres. Website is quite horrible thou but the content is superb.
Used the previous release (0.9 something) for few weeks and stumbled upon few big issues for me:
- It eats up quite alot of cpu. I don't have the fastest of the bunch (1.4GHz amd something/1GB mem) but somehow it manages to eat up alot of juice compared to running something like VLC and normal torrent app. And when the cpu usage got up, audio sync problems.
- Also, downloading episodes that where queued automatically wasnt restricted by configuration option. Like, in config, one could add option to download 2 vids at once.. but it was still downloading 5 of "autodownloaded" ones and 2 "manually added" ones..
- VLC as a playback back-end only supported in windows, not in linux -> codec hell. Defaults to use gstreamer which wasnt the best option cpu wise either.. Some docs mentioned there's different backend for linux but it had to patched to the code..
- And last, atleast the linux side of the forums where quite unresponsive..
But to be fair, i did like the idea of miro, i have tried other similar applications and out of the few i've tested, miro as a software was the most fun to use and sadly (for the others), only one working on in linux.
What is the structure of the Finish Standards Association? Who fired him?
Who claimed he was 'excellent' and 'one of a kind'?
Who else is part of this association?
What does this association standardize, and for whom? In other words, what is the impact of this association's decision?
Some answers:
During the meeting, he asked permission to speak as private person and was granted to do so. The article is abit brief on the matter but comments on the article says that he mentioned errors/problems in ooxml and even the microsoft representative on the crowd wasnt able to deny those facts. I should also mention that the same comment mentions that he explicitly pointed out that this was his personal view and SFS should should have only the view that this meeting will decide, twice.
He was fired by Pekka Järvinen, who's basicly CEO of SFS. According the article, Nirhamo was still on his 4week trying period and Järvinen said to the press that the contract is cancelled due to issues that have appeared are causing a lack of trust and he cannot talk more about the details.
Comments in the article mentions that he was keeping the meeting well in course, not allowing people to wonder to offtopic discussion.
Member list of the association is here: http://www.sfs.fi/sfs_lyhyesti/jasenet/jasenluettelo/ . Briefly said, its an organization that has members from wide range of finnish industrial and commercial associations and finnish government/minister offices.
SFS Covers alot of standardizing in various fields. Im not so aware of all the things they work with but seeing the memberlist has basicly all the major industrial and commercial associates and all major government offices, i would assume that their work is atleast "relevant" =)
Addition to the last answer, i read the linked article which covered the actual meeting. In the end notes of that article, journalist mentions following:
Freely translated: Finland is one of ISO JTC1-group's so called 36 P members, who's votes 75% are required to accept the standard. And due to outcome of this meeting, Finland's decision wasnt declared due to results of this meeting.
this is a dupe because it is now known comcast does this. it isnt news, it isnt shocking, it is well known, it is stupid but it isnt gonna change. Nah. Its a dupe because it has been discussed in/. previously: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/231620 9
This is nothing new. Since 50-60s, jamaican soundsystems aka dj's have been recording customized versions of hit tunes that are unique to them in one way or the other. Either the lyrics have been changed, tune is recorded to different background or both. Since then, this type of recorded custom music has moved to different genres and is very typical also in electronic music like drumnbass and such types which have influences from caribbean music. Dj's use to outshine other because they can play tunes that other dj's dont have.
There's a also a sort of a "sport" revolving around this phenomenon and its called soundclash. 2 different dj's or dj groups "battle" against each other with custom tunes..
I'm not sure but i was under impression that you can actually have google gadgets in your desktop too. You need to have Google Desktop installed ofcourse...
Im personally under impression that ost if not all highend soundcards that are supported under linux are working because they have Alsa support. Check http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ for more details.
Judging by your comment, its very obvious that you havent met that many Finns. Not that we are all arrogant bastards but its just quite a norm to state the facts how we see'em. Without polishing them first.
Is now, which side has valid claims ?
But then again, news reports in Finland didnt actually say that Starbucks is the bad corporation that is not paying Fare Price for the farmers, just that they didnt sign the copyright agreements about the ethiopian coffee brands and that they are still using those even there are other big coffee companies that have agreed to sign the papers. By copyrighting the name, the farmers & trade commission tries to raise the price as farmers are getting a very small share where ethiopian coffee is held as one of the best coffee brands in the world and thus also the most expensive..
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I didnt RTFA so im not sure what is going on in Norway so im just guessing that it was somewhat similar issue as in Finland.
Majority of board was against OOXML Standard but in the end, board's decision was "yes". Why ? Board consists of big businesses, government and some other groups. 3 of the bigger companies in the board where IBM, Sun & Google and their votes where not counted because "they would vote as their head offices dictate" and thus the overall voting results from "absolutely no" where turned into "yes with clauses".
Yey!
Just stating that any SWE that do not know how to use VCS and/or Bugzilla or similar application is not really worth anything. Skills like that are *essential* for any developer. And thus, getting your hands dirty with floss application of your choice is really good way to get something into your resume..
orly?
I dont claim you are wrong but you don't agree with you either - just from my personal experience.
Eversince i've been a linux user (and i've been one for quite a long time, around when first versions of slackware came out) i've paid for 3 types of software:
1) distro cd's (mainly slackware - because downloading wasn't a viable option)
2) Vendetta Online - http://www.vendetta-online.com/
3) Eschalon Book 1. - http://www.basiliskgames.com/
I've been a subscribe for vendetta approx a 8 months now and bought eschalon because demo version ran fine on my box and seemed to be really nice rpg game.
Ok, having bought 3 items in past 10 years aint much but 66% of those have been games. I'd like to mention that i'd be willing to buy more games too but been put off by quality. X2 didn't work on my machine and old loki games doesnt really interest me. I've been thinking of subscribing to Eve Online but emotions get on the way of running something on top of wine. Besides those, there just ain't good games available for linux or they arent marketed at all. Infact i was actually really suprised that i found Eschalon review on local gaming magazine and not off the internet on typical linux gaming websites..
rambling off.
Had to click and visit your homepage just to check if we have worked in the same company =)
Would be nice ofcourse.. Except there's no suitable java vm yet available for the platform afaik (atleast thats the case when i was doing some stuff on the platform - about 4 months ago)
On unrelated matter to the whole topic but related to your comment, one of Finland's biggest cable operators Welho is going to start digital downloads (iptv) during first half of the 2008. Their best bandwidth offer so far has been 10MB cable connection but on a consumer fair few months ago they announced that they will start to offer 100MB connections covering their whole network (without any need to modications to existing infrastructure except change of the enduser modem).
Finland is also one of the first nations (not the first per se) that went thru changing the whole tv broadcasting from analog to digital. This happened last autumn.
That's true but its not the problem in the technology but in the content packaging. And honest opinion, the package descriptions in specially games is really really really horrible if one doesn't have extensive gaming history knowledge =)
Agreed.
Only thing that was done better from the start with deps was the hook with apt repositories. FC/Redhat that has already covered but people are still stuck with old mental images of "inferior rpm".
Define improvement?
.. Few package repositories provided only apt interface but since then apt and yum repo's have same backend so any apt rpm repo works now with yum too
First off, i've been using apt for Redhat since redhat 6 release
Since version 7 fedora, i've been starting to use yum irregullary and after upgrading to fc8 and the latest yum, i've been a really happy camper with it.
- Latest yum works much faster than previous versions.
- Configurability is much better with yum than with apt. 3rd party plugins can do really wonders.
And things have changed how exactly from days of when redhat was redhat and there was no fedora? Gone worse ?
.1 and .2 releases + the ee versions. So, how much time have gone into 8 fedora releases ? How and how much progress has happened in them ? Does redhat still back up fedora development, do they provide services like bugzilla/mailinglists, mirrors, what ever to fedora project ? And what about the community ? There more more 3rd party wiki pages, news sites, *RPM REPOSITORIES*, support forums and what not than there was ever provided by Redhat alone..
Seriously. How many redhat releases there where ? 9 majors if i remember right and few
And you say that support has gone worse because "they dont want to support the serious users"..
So, honest question, could you actually give some real facts how things are worse now than they where ?
Sir, Chuck norris calls you bullshit. 10 Megabit cable connection (pretty standard here) gives ruffly 990kb/sec transfer depending on the sender's connection and protocol used. (For example, 990kb/sec is the top speed i can get from ftp.funet.fi which is few hops away)
Personally i never used background downloading in wow and at the time of the patch going live, there where so many seeds already available that having only 1 official seed from Blizzard didnt really matter. Comparing the "patch" downloading to x amount of Sony mmorpgs, ultima, Anarchy online and few others that i've played, i do consider WOW's to be done best and sir, you can call bullshit on that too.
Everyone ?
.. roughly i'd say it was about 450kb/sec on average whenever i was downloading a patch.
I was subscriber from day 1 of eu release till last june or so and i personally *never* downloaded a patch from a mirror. And i always got download speeds of 300-900kb/sec
AFAIK, WOW (World Of Warcraft) uses BitTorrent to spread their patches to the customers -- and afaik #2, there are loads of them (wow customers) ...
http://www.versionist.com/ - quite a big community creating reggae, mainly dub and thats where the quality is but also other sub genres. Website is quite horrible thou but the content is superb.
Depends.. Whats in the package?
Used the previous release (0.9 something) for few weeks and stumbled upon few big issues for me:
..
- It eats up quite alot of cpu. I don't have the fastest of the bunch (1.4GHz amd something/1GB mem) but somehow it manages to eat up alot of juice compared to running something like VLC and normal torrent app. And when the cpu usage got up, audio sync problems.
- Also, downloading episodes that where queued automatically wasnt restricted by configuration option. Like, in config, one could add option to download 2 vids at once.. but it was still downloading 5 of "autodownloaded" ones and 2 "manually added" ones..
- VLC as a playback back-end only supported in windows, not in linux -> codec hell. Defaults to use gstreamer which wasnt the best option cpu wise either.. Some docs mentioned there's different backend for linux but it had to patched to the code..
- And last, atleast the linux side of the forums where quite unresponsive
But to be fair, i did like the idea of miro, i have tried other similar applications and out of the few i've tested, miro as a software was the most fun to use and sadly (for the others), only one working on in linux.
I had (and still have) ntfs read/write support in fedora6, slightly older distro than gutsy.
Some answers:
Addition to the last answer, i read the linked article which covered the actual meeting. In the end notes of that article, journalist mentions following:
Nah. Its a dupe because it has been discussed in
This is nothing new. Since 50-60s, jamaican soundsystems aka dj's have been recording customized versions of hit tunes that are unique to them in one way or the other. Either the lyrics have been changed, tune is recorded to different background or both. Since then, this type of recorded custom music has moved to different genres and is very typical also in electronic music like drumnbass and such types which have influences from caribbean music. Dj's use to outshine other because they can play tunes that other dj's dont have.
There's a also a sort of a "sport" revolving around this phenomenon and its called soundclash. 2 different dj's or dj groups "battle" against each other with custom tunes..
I'm not sure but i was under impression that you can actually have google gadgets in your desktop too. You need to have Google Desktop installed ofcourse...
Im personally under impression that ost if not all highend soundcards that are supported under linux are working because they have Alsa support. Check http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ for more details.
Can detect blood cloths, pussy cloths, ras cloths and what not, so why do we need a device for such trivial job ?
Judging by your comment, its very obvious that you havent met that many Finns. Not that we are all arrogant bastards but its just quite a norm to state the facts how we see'em. Without polishing them first.
Is now, which side has valid claims ? But then again, news reports in Finland didnt actually say that Starbucks is the bad corporation that is not paying Fare Price for the farmers, just that they didnt sign the copyright agreements about the ethiopian coffee brands and that they are still using those even there are other big coffee companies that have agreed to sign the papers. By copyrighting the name, the farmers & trade commission tries to raise the price as farmers are getting a very small share where ethiopian coffee is held as one of the best coffee brands in the world and thus also the most expensive..