I don't know about you guys but personnaly, I have always thought eBook to be a bad idea. Paper is the best reading medium when it comes to read something more than 25 pages long. Just recently, I had to download the WML (WAP) spec. in PDF format from Phone.com and after reading a few pages, I printed it out and found that it was much more practical and enjoyable to read it from paper.
I have to admit that if eBooks would replace real books, I would be the first to be alarmed. But I seriously doubt the things will ever be nothing more than high end gadgets like PDAs. It's just a sign of the times. It seems that all of a sudden, "jet set" babbles have become a way to show off how wired and cool you are.
I hope they'll keep OpenGL for 3D. If that's the case, Nividia is sure to be involved since SGI and Nvidia cooperate a lot in this area. I also hope to see Matrox's name added to the list of participants.
I dont know about WP7 but I have installed WP8 on multiple systems and in many cases, programs like Corel Central would not even run (crash at launch time). I have had all these problems on fresh installs of Win95 and Win98 so there's nothing wrong with MS theorically breaking stuff.
I was always a strong supporter non-M$ alternatives even when I was using win32. I presently own a copy of WP8 suite for Win32 and it'a as much a peice of crashware as WP2k seems to be. The WordPerfect office suite is a very buggy code base that is dragged on and on endlessly... even in native win32, it sucks ass. If Netscape had chosen to keep it's codebase from communicator and it would be at version 8, it would probably compare well to the kind of crashware that WP is. Corel's office suite if not a victim of Microsoft's dominance, it'a victim of it's constant lack of quality. Even after an endless drivel of patches, the thing is a unstable as hell.
It hangers me to see that Corel is so underestimating the intelligence and integrity of the community. Especially a crowd so technically savy and used to good software as us. Corel is no better that Microsoft. If it can make the wordPerfect proprietary file format uniquitous on Linux, they will. As a matter of fact it's their plan exactly. Corel is a conveniance vendor. For the permission to install and use their products, you have to give away some of your freedom. By using their file formats, you are blocking non-Corel product owners out of the information you saved in it.
On the other hand, much of the new users that come from the Windows world dont get the ethical and practical values of free software and are more than ready to part with their money and freedom for a little convenience. Geez. I only started using Linux when Red Het 5.1 came out and I already feel like one of those bearded free software advocates when I compare myself to the average slashdotter these days. I remember a time when threads here were about a mouvement of hackers that stood for something that has a higher meaning than conveniance, market share and stock value.
Where have all the philosophers gone? Have we let ourselves be pushed out of our place of gathering by the exact mentality from which we soth refuge?
"Unlike most companies who deal with Linux, Corel actually has a good product that isn't free. They stand to make a profit off something other than slow, barely-competent email support (which is all Red Hat ever gave me)."
Unlike Corel which sells proprietary software that isn't free (freedom), Reh Hat takes an active role in developing free (freedom) software that makes Linux better for ALL the community. Corel is no better that Microsoft. If it can make the wordPerfect proprietary file format uniquitous on Linux, they will. As a matter of fact it's their plan exactly. Corel is a conveniance vendor. For the permission to install and use their products, you have to give away some of your freedom. By using their file formats, you are blocking non-Corel product owners out of the information you saved in it.
Geez. I only started using Linux when Red Het 5.1 came out and I already feel like one of those bearded free software advocates when I compare myself to the average slashdotter these days. I remember a time when threads here were about a mouvement of hackers that stood for something that has a higher meaning than conveniance, market share and stock value.
Where have all the philosophers gone? Have we let ourselves be pushed out of our place of gathering by the exact mentality from which we soth refuge?
They should try to assemble HURD and the Berlin desktop environment and call the distribution Amiga. This should make a pretty nifty and cutting edge platform and it would instantly gain the favor of hackers and hobyists everywhere. I for one would appreciate such a computer. This is about the only thing right now that would make me want to buy a computer that is not x86 based.
It's all PROPAGANDA's fault that the Net is so full of Geocoties homepages with unbearable backgrounds with pictures of Johm Smith's cat. If I see another une of those I'll go nuts.
You're not alone but I don't agree for the same reasons as you. I have WP8 suite on windows and it ships with a PIM software called Corel Central. I have tried to install it on Win95 and Win 98 with various patches from corel and it NEVER even launched properly. At 95% of the time, it would crash at launch time. I have never seen such a horrible peice of crashware in my who life.
Now Corel tries to make it in the Linux space with a disto full of closed source additions and every possible peice of open source software that is not free (liberty). What a parasite approach so far. (No, I don't think their involvment in whine should excuse all of this.)
Well, just because some US judge says something *SHOULD NOT* mean that other countries should let themselves be pushed aound. Too bad we dont have geographical screening for US laws.
Actually, if you are comparing it to Slashdot in NS4 for Win32, it looks very different because win32 displays (somehow) Times New Roman and the Linux screenshot seems to have a Slashdot in Arial. I dont know if Slashdot it so dynamically generated that it generate different styles for different platforms. I suspect the author may have changed Slashdot's code offline to show off his favorite font. Slashdot was just not the appopriate site for Arial.
Quite a conspiracy theory:-) Think about it d00ds, the evli hackers(tm) may have modified Slashdot's code offline! The Net is insecure, we have to pressure goverments everywhere to punish these actions as the worst crimes mankind has ever made!
WOW, you should ask the Barnes and Noble lawyers that they call you as a defendant's witness to prove the patent's invalidity and repeat in court what you have writen in this letter.
Hehe I'm sure Tim didnt think of this one. It could have significantly more impact than some letter letter posted on a web page. Maybe they can afford it... unless they are pubicly traded.
PS: I dont mean to disminish the noble intent of the letter.
Listen, what liscence a person chooses to use is part of a person's freedom. The freedom of the GPL and LGPL is about "free speech and not free beer".
Therefore, if someone wants to make a closed source project with a LGPL'ed toolkit, they are free(freedom = = no constraints) to do it but not with Qt ($$$ = = constraints).
Actually, the invisible hand metaphore has been proven wrong time and time again. For those not in the know, the invisible hand stands for maket forces. In the invisible hand metaphore, the market can readjust itself without ANY kind of intervention from a gorvernment.
If this metaphore were working as it's theory implies, we wouldn't be seeing the government raise interest rates to curbe anticipated inflation because some maket dynamics would have taken care of it. Likewise, maket dynamics would be sufficient to maintain strong competition and would make monopolies impossible. There are HUNDREDS of similar examples that stand ready to show that Smith's metaphore stands closer to wishfull thinking than anything else. A Keynesian economist could spend hours bringing up real life examples that demonstrate the Smith's invisible hand is poop.
I agree that slade's actions are nothing but theft and. I also agree that Marx's theories are full of paradox.
But the thing is, those ideas were spawned during the indudtrial revolution and at the time, there were no such things as worker's right and teamsters. Heck, even children were working so that their families could barely survive.
This is the kind of climate that has given birth to Marx's ideas. It was EXTREME capitalism. Corporations ruled. If a boss decided to have sex with a woman worker so that she could keep her job, she had to abide because there was nothing to protect her rights and jobs were next to impossible to find
So you see, the *ideas* of capitalism and communism are not evil in theselves but their applications can lead to great evil, especailly if they are looked upon in a dogmatic way. The industrial revolution period was a time where very rich individuals had way too much power over most individuals. They could baffle everyone right and the environment at their whim.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not a communist but what bothers me is that because great evil was commited in the name of communism, most people (especially americans) tend to call communism itself evil. The truth is that the *idea* of communism (not it's applications) stems from anything but evil intents. At it's base, communism is the recognition that all are equal and that the state should be there enforce the people's will.
Now, these ideas, as christianity in the Dark Ages, were great distorted by an imperialist state(USSR). In truth, the real evil is the imperialist desire to homogenize the world as one's image. It's kind of sad to see such FUD and tabou around communism as an ideal in the US. But the more you think about it, the only great imperialist state left is the US and this mind pattern is self serving.
So: "I would say this Slade character is more of a capitalist, siezing private property and not giving anyhing back." Is much more closer to the truth that the communist utopia of a world without possession....
PROTECT US??? from what? From ourselves? Is it not a principle in this country that we are innocent until we are proven guilty?
And considering the diversity of opinion and political choices in this country, what exactly does "on OUR SIDE" mean? Who's side? The people's? The government's? Big buisiness? Democrats? Republicans? Socialists? Anarchists?
I totaly agree with you exept that I think that your views on Communists is a bit twisted. Communists have a great respect for private ownership. As a Social democrat and a programmer I have no problems to abide by GPL and I totaly respect the non-ownership the comunity has of GLPed code. All Communists I know are nice Intelligent people.
I would say this Slade character is more of a capitalist, siezing private property and not giving anyhing back.
The speed is nice but I read an article on AnandTech.com that says that to acheive such speed, they had to reduce the plater size considerably. Meaning that these drive are curently limited to 18 gig. Not bad but it still makes you lon for those 40+ gig monstrosities that are comming out.
Actually, I also read Sweeney's article and I'm reading an Eiffel book right now because of it:-) (Introduction to Eiffel, R. Switzer). It's good to know there's a GNU implementation (http://smalleiffel.loria.fr/) because if the language ever takes off in a big way, the free software community won't have to catch up to anyone.
Considering that all things evolve and that, eventually, C++ will make room for a higher generation language, what features do you consider as critical to a next generation, post C++ language? Is there any language existing today that comes close to what you envision it to be?
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I have to admit that if eBooks would replace real books, I would be the first to be alarmed. But I seriously doubt the things will ever be nothing more than high end gadgets like PDAs. It's just a sign of the times. It seems that all of a sudden, "jet set" babbles have become a way to show off how wired and cool you are.
I fuck the buisness machine!
A toast to the death of DirectSucX!
I dont know about WP7 but I have installed WP8 on multiple systems and in many cases, programs like Corel Central would not even run (crash at launch time). I have had all these problems on fresh installs of Win95 and Win98 so there's nothing wrong with MS theorically breaking stuff.
It hangers me to see that Corel is so underestimating the intelligence and integrity of the community. Especially a crowd so technically savy and used to good software as us. Corel is no better that Microsoft. If it can make the wordPerfect proprietary file format uniquitous on Linux, they will. As a matter of fact it's their plan exactly. Corel is a conveniance vendor. For the permission to install and use their products, you have to give away some of your freedom. By using their file formats, you are blocking non-Corel product owners out of the information you saved in it.
On the other hand, much of the new users that come from the Windows world dont get the ethical and practical values of free software and are more than ready to part with their money and freedom for a little convenience. Geez. I only started using Linux when Red Het 5.1 came out and I already feel like one of those bearded free software advocates when I compare myself to the average slashdotter these days. I remember a time when threads here were about a mouvement of hackers that stood for something that has a higher meaning than conveniance, market share and stock value.
Where have all the philosophers gone? Have we let ourselves be pushed out of our place of gathering by the exact mentality from which we soth refuge?
Unlike Corel which sells proprietary software that isn't free (freedom), Reh Hat takes an active role in developing free (freedom) software that makes Linux better for ALL the community. Corel is no better that Microsoft. If it can make the wordPerfect proprietary file format uniquitous on Linux, they will. As a matter of fact it's their plan exactly. Corel is a conveniance vendor. For the permission to install and use their products, you have to give away some of your freedom. By using their file formats, you are blocking non-Corel product owners out of the information you saved in it.
Geez. I only started using Linux when Red Het 5.1 came out and I already feel like one of those bearded free software advocates when I compare myself to the average slashdotter these days. I remember a time when threads here were about a mouvement of hackers that stood for something that has a higher meaning than conveniance, market share and stock value.
Where have all the philosophers gone? Have we let ourselves be pushed out of our place of gathering by the exact mentality from which we soth refuge?
(not meant as a flame to the above poster)
They should try to assemble HURD and the Berlin desktop environment and call the distribution Amiga. This should make a pretty nifty and cutting edge platform and it would instantly gain the favor of hackers and hobyists everywhere. I for one would appreciate such a computer. This is about the only thing right now that would make me want to buy a computer that is not x86 based.
It's all PROPAGANDA's fault that the Net is so full of Geocoties homepages with unbearable backgrounds with pictures of Johm Smith's cat. If I see another une of those I'll go nuts.
Now Corel tries to make it in the Linux space with a disto full of closed source additions and every possible peice of open source software that is not free (liberty). What a parasite approach so far. (No, I don't think their involvment in whine should excuse all of this.)
Why dont you simply use hard drives in these drawer things? (you know what I mean silly) Why would hard drives be inapropriate to back up hard drives?
Well, just because some US judge says something *SHOULD NOT* mean that other countries should let themselves be pushed aound. Too bad we dont have geographical screening for US laws.
Quite a conspiracy theory
That should settle it.
PS: I dont mean to disminish the noble intent of the letter.
I can't beleive this isn't moderated as Funny. The cynical tone is SO intentionnal. (which is good...)
Jesus.. 200Mhz and 32mb is a lot. I could run Apache on it... A wireless pocket Web server!
Therefore, if someone wants to make a closed source project with a LGPL'ed toolkit, they are free(freedom = = no constraints) to do it but not with Qt ($$$ = = constraints).
This has been an interesting thread. I look forward to another debate of the kind in in a GPL/evil communism thread.
If this metaphore were working as it's theory implies, we wouldn't be seeing the government raise interest rates to curbe anticipated inflation because some maket dynamics would have taken care of it. Likewise, maket dynamics would be sufficient to maintain strong competition and would make monopolies impossible. There are HUNDREDS of similar examples that stand ready to show that Smith's metaphore stands closer to wishfull thinking than anything else. A Keynesian economist could spend hours bringing up real life examples that demonstrate the Smith's invisible hand is poop.
Touché!
But the thing is, those ideas were spawned during the indudtrial revolution and at the time, there were no such things as worker's right and teamsters. Heck, even children were working so that their families could barely survive.
This is the kind of climate that has given birth to Marx's ideas. It was EXTREME capitalism. Corporations ruled. If a boss decided to have sex with a woman worker so that she could keep her job, she had to abide because there was nothing to protect her rights and jobs were next to impossible to find
So you see, the *ideas* of capitalism and communism are not evil in theselves but their applications can lead to great evil, especailly if they are looked upon in a dogmatic way. The industrial revolution period was a time where very rich individuals had way too much power over most individuals. They could baffle everyone right and the environment at their whim.
Now, these ideas, as christianity in the Dark Ages, were great distorted by an imperialist state(USSR). In truth, the real evil is the imperialist desire to homogenize the world as one's image. It's kind of sad to see such FUD and tabou around communism as an ideal in the US. But the more you think about it, the only great imperialist state left is the US and this mind pattern is self serving.
So:
"I would say this Slade character is more of a capitalist, siezing private property and not giving anyhing back."
Is much more closer to the truth that the communist utopia of a world without possession....
And considering the diversity of opinion and political choices in this country, what exactly does "on OUR SIDE" mean? Who's side? The people's? The government's? Big buisiness? Democrats? Republicans? Socialists? Anarchists?
I would say this Slade character is more of a capitalist, siezing private property and not giving anyhing back.
Know your History.
bartok
The speed is nice but I read an article on AnandTech.com that says that to acheive such speed, they had to reduce the plater size considerably. Meaning that these drive are curently limited to 18 gig. Not bad but it still makes you lon for those 40+ gig monstrosities that are comming out.
Actually, I also read Sweeney's article and I'm reading an Eiffel book right now because of it :-) (Introduction to Eiffel, R. Switzer). It's good to know there's a GNU implementation (http://smalleiffel.loria.fr/) because if the language ever takes off in a big way, the free software community won't have to catch up to anyone.
Considering that all things evolve and that, eventually, C++ will make room for a higher generation language, what features do you consider as critical to a next generation, post C++ language? Is there any language existing today that comes close to what you envision it to be?