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Comment Re:The situation is much more complicated than tha (Score 1) 364

by wroshyyr on Thursday February 03, 2011 @04:47PM (#35095386) Attached to: Usage Based Billing In Canada To Be Rescinded

I'm paying $100/month for 5mbps down and 800kbps up. I have a choice of ONE ISP only. Until now I'm actually pretty happy with what I'm getting. But as of March 1st Xplornet (my isp) is imposing massive limitations. 2gb per day. 60gb per month. My price stays that same but they will heavily penalize my transfer rates if I go over that amount. This is completely unethical IMHO. Online backups, Netflix, Linux ISO downloads, not to mention normal usage will eat up that bandwidth in short order. You say that UBB is good? Until you suffer under a ISP monopoly with greedy business practices don't even dare say that UBB is good.

Drupal's Dries Buytaert On Drupal 7 55

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:57PM from the on-the-horizon dept.

itwbennett writes "The Drupal community has been working on Drupal 7 for two years, and there are 'hundreds of changes' to show for it, says Drupal creator Dries Buytaert in an interview with ITworld's Esther Schindler on the occasion of Drupal 7 going into Alpha test this week. Most notable for end users are 'some massive usability improvements,' says Buytaert, while site builders will see the greatest changes in the Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK), which has been moved into the Drupal core. But one thing that hasn't changed is the not-so-easy upgrade path. 'The upgrade path for a Drupal site has never been really easy, to be honest,' Buytaert says. 'We do break backwards compatibility. It's a little bit painful because it requires all of the contributed modules — and there's 4,000-5,000 of them — to make changes.' But Buytaert doesn't think that's all bad. 'Innovation is key. Backwards compatibility limits innovation,' Buytaert contends. 'The rule we have is: We'll break the API if it makes a better API, and if it allows good innovation and progress to be made. Also: The second rule is that we'll never break people's data. We'll always provide an upgrade path for the data.'"

Comment Re:Medicine : Where this really gets scary (Score 1) 616

by wroshyyr on Sunday March 15, 2009 @11:07AM (#27199967) Attached to: Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families

I'm not so sure that it "lowers" quality. A couple of months or years raising a child gives you all sorts of special caring skills. Having children isn't a blackhole for professional or intellectual development.

Comment Re:Paternity Leave (Score 1) 616

by wroshyyr on Sunday March 15, 2009 @11:03AM (#27199943) Attached to: Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families

Women don't HAVE to stay home with the kids. Some women WANT to stay home with the kids. Why can't "career" minded people get this? My wife wanted to stay home with the kids. Does this mean I should start complaining that I HAVE to go to work? Of course not.

Comment KDE 4.1 (Score 1) 172

by wroshyyr on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @10:41AM (#23652295) Attached to: Google Releases Desktop Gadgets For Linux

Wouldn't KDE 4 be the first cross-platform desktop widget framework? Or don't they count it because it isn't completely done yet?

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