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No... I make decent money now, more than enough to to tip my paperboy $10. It not a matter of bitterness, it is a matter of charity, and human compassion, both which you seem to be lacking.
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Heheheh hey did anyone notice who was depositing the money in the.org bowls. I assure you it wasnt.com linux distros. There is one thing that I have noticed in life, from being a paperboy when I was a kid. Rich people with fancy houses, nice mercedes cars etc... wouldnt tip me crap. But when I went to the middle class family struggling to make and bringing up 4 kids on 12,000 a year, they would give me a $10 dollar tip usually. Now I bet most of the contributions in those bowls where from your average hackers, and joes, and not from the corporate people. It just goes to show how badly money corrupts.
I personally think that best way to distribute programs is in source code. Think about it a little bit, When you compile you can optimize for you processor, etc.... Now I would like to see a package distribution that was source based. Not tar or rpm. Something that compiles in the background installs, move the binaries, and libs to the correct places. Actually the best thing I have seen so far is the ports collection for FreeBSD, extremely user friendly, all compiled all optimized, dependencies get resolved, it is pure heaven
Is this guy trying to incite a flameware or something. Not only was his article completely misinformed. I think he is missing a major point. Yes free software is good but If all software is free then where is the incentive for companies to develop cutting edge stuff. Come on give me a break Torvalds has to pay the rent somehow, not to mention that he is slamming Torvalds, it isnt Torvald's company he isnt the CEO, or even the CIO he is an engineer(a brilliant famous one), but still an engineer, he doesnt have control over what Transmeta does with it products. I going to stop now this article dissapoints me.
Hmm it seems to me that all this is.. is a well...rant. He trying to make some play on Free speech when there isnt even an issue. Take for isntance documentaries, like on the Discovery channel. I they just piped out the data recorded raw right into the audience it wouldnt make for a good, or even informative show. If a comapany is going to spend the time to moderate and filter out the crap from public domain speech and put the data they feel important on their media then more power to them. Anyway that is what people have done for years, the media never correctly portrays the full scope of any particular subject, just what people want to hear. Hell even Slasdot does it. So again I ask what is the point of this article..... none really, its just some guy blowing crap out his mouth trying to sound pretentious and just, when he is probably just out for personal glory....
couple this with a little mindstorm inventiveness and you have hours of fun and enjoyment (pain?). I have already programming my mindstorm bot to chase our black cat around the apartment. Ouch*.... Just got a mental picture of my poor cat getting pelted by volleys of high speed legos.
Hmmmm could be interesting... the images part isnt bad but I think that this little hole allows any arbitrary html to seep into the page, hence nasty javascript re-directs pop-ups windows and all sorts of fun stuff like that lets hope it get fixed soon.
AOL is definitely being a pain in the ass in this respect. This is classic M$ monopply tactics. Though I dont know if it justifies a 8 billion dollar lawsuit. Then again what the hell sue the hell out of them the message needs to go across that its wrong for large companies to take advantage of their power.
What the hell is so special about this I could probably do this with a couple of set of lego mindstorms. The test environment isnt chaotic enough to consider the monkey navigation anything special. The same thing could be done with wieghts and pulleys given enogh time.? I just dont get the point......
This is very good news. People seem to be focusing on what is already written out there MESA. The cool thing is now maybe someone will write some decent drivers for vid cards *cough TNT2*, not to mention the weird chipset crap S3T on the Viper2 which doesnt use Nvidida or 3dfx *sigh*. I am interesting mostly in the name we can now say that linux can support OpenGL instead of saying "well we kinda have this MEsa thing* big companies dont like using technology like Mesa with a few exceptions *cough idsoftware*. Hopefully this will give devs to final push to start porting 3d apps to linux. I can see it now
Consumer: "Hey linux has FULL support for OPenGL" Dev: "Hmmm cool maybe Ill have to mess around with that".
What the hell am I talking about its 8:00Am and my coffee hasnt finished brewing, and I need my coffee to write karma-compliant posts.
While I am not an expert on the matter here is a suggestion: 1. find a company that uses your product, as a main part of their solution, preferably one you would want to work at:) 2. Then along with working on their solution you can also work on yours along with adding specialized functionality with the product, as long as it maintains its GPL license which it has too:) 3. In effect you become a little mini-VAR just for their company. This allows you to get paid for developing you product. 4. It is just one suggestion, It may not be the best or the most obvious but I beleive it is a valid suggstion. ------------------------------------------------ There is alway RedHat....:)
This sounds like what Apple did in the early days of the Apple2, I think this is a good mocve redhat to get kids familiarized with this technology early on so I becomes second-nature. Now the only question is will kids use it? Also I would be wise to do a similiar sort of thing will the US education system, if they can. Are there any sort of provisions prevented them from doing this? There is usually a whole pile of contracts and legal crap that goes along with stuff of this nature. It would be nice to see this in US schools.
Can you SMP Athlons..? I am considering getting a SMP box running and right now I have 2(370 Overclocked Celerons) in mind maybe I should change this to Athlons. Come lets here you suggestions for the best non Intel SMP machine....
This is unfortunate, I was looking forward to this particular product. I prefer the good ol' command line, but there comes a time when I want to slop something together without constructing a makefile, etc... I think the biggest strength of this product is luring developers who are used to a GUI into Linux, and OpenSource development. A lot of developers a deterred from participating in OpenSource projects due to having to learn a set archaic compiler commands (which I love). A Lot of developers that I know havent even created their own makefiles before. They have done all of it with VisualStudio, or CodeWarrior on the Macintosh. CodeWarrior isnt a replacement for good old gcc, but it is a bonus perk for people who want to get up to speed quickly in the type of development environment they are used to.
Now that is really what I like seeing from the Opensource community. GeForce drivers before the thing has become mainstream. If the 3D co-processor in the GetForce catches on then Linux will be right there with big boys as far as compatibility. Now all we have to do is convince people to starts using OpenGL instead of DirectX, and come one lets see Mesa nVidia TNT2 drivers already
hmmm get a couple of these together, and set up a RAMDrive then you have a new definition of performance filesystem. I bet with 1GB of this RAM Win2K would still take about 1/2 hour to boot.:)
I not trying to belittle college, but most college CS programs are woefully inadequete for the current technology. The only thing colleges can teach that is applicable to the work place is general copmuting topics and techniques, linked lists, and some of the most technologies like C\C++, UNIX, and Perl. This industry is more chaotic than others. I think that more attention needs to paid to early computer education, on the grade-school level. People need to learn general copmuter theory in gradeschool not college. A standard Bachelor's degree takes around 4 years, I am sure that slashdot readers recognize the changes that can occur in time period. Personally I am a college dropout, but when I go back to finish I am not going to major in something other than CS. (probably architecture).... Most computer systems and applicable uses for computer stem from existing integration with other technologies, like financial systems, where a degree has more weight. Computer programming requires more than a degree, it requires intelligence, innovation, dedication, and hubris/pride in your work. Some of the best programmers/developers I know dont have degrees in CS. It seems that alot of people who get CS degrees fo it for the money, and not for the vision. For them its a career path so they can buy there new luxury SUVs, and get there screaming brats cell phones, and gap clothes. The marketplace is changing, employees no longer care about employees as much, cradle to grave is a joke. The new workplace is dynamic and fast paced, and the people that will excell in it are people you adapt to change, IMHO opinion college is to rooted in traditional work values to teach that. I will end this rant now. Dont get me wrong college is great, and it is a *neccesity*, but in the computer industry CS arent as relevant.humbly end rant
While the lopht certainly have had some buzz around them, and have gained quite a notorious reputation. There is one point I would like to make. They answered all of the questions in the interview intelligently, and fairly. It seems that the members of the lopht are intelligent sentient beings, and not whining script kiddies. Also they brought up a very good point "uninformed citizens are the greatest threat to personal liberties on the net". How else would you explain the dominance of AOL, and M$ operatin systems
I do have this feeling that kids that are growing up right now, ppl that are immersed in technology from day one will know better and see through the marketing crap. Ill stop becuase I am rambling now, and slightly off-topic.
I thinks they both create good chipsets but this little battle royale has reaped benefits for consumers. If Intel had it their way the P2 would just be introduced. What if M$ had a competitor like AMD to Intel. Oh well, could it be linux... lets hope so.
This is pretty disgusting. I think this makes a pretty obvious statement, that all you have to do to be "man of the year" in the eyes of the media is make loads of cash.
Seriously what did he really do to deserve this "honor". I wish Time would stop rewarding business skills and commercialism, and start honoring innovation and integrity.
It seems that they just wanted someone to capture the spirit of the digital revolution, and some clueless journalist just picked some ass out of the air, a name that people would recognize.
I know that I am going to get flamed for this but lets try to be fair and mature about it. Good ol Bill "the evil tycoon" Gates donated billions to charity this year. While I dont agree with some of M$'s business tactics, I respect Bill Gates for this.
I think Time should make that "I kiss you guy" guy man of the year, just out of spite.
I think IM needs a standard. Pagers have standards. email has standard (SMTP,POP3) web has standards (HTTP,HTTPS) Its time to take the IM war out of the hands of coporations who want to make money and into the hands of the users, where it will benefit all.
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No... I make decent money now, more than enough to to tip my paperboy $10. It not a matter of bitterness, it is a matter of charity, and human compassion, both which you seem to be lacking.
Heheheh hey did anyone notice who was depositing the money in the .org bowls. I assure you it wasnt .com linux distros. There is one thing that I have noticed in life, from being a paperboy when I was a kid. Rich people with fancy houses, nice mercedes cars etc... wouldnt tip me crap. But when I went to the middle class family struggling to make and bringing up 4 kids on 12,000 a year, they would give me a $10 dollar tip usually. Now I bet most of the contributions in those bowls where from your average hackers, and joes, and not from the corporate people. It just goes to show how badly money corrupts.
I personally think that best way to distribute programs is in source code. Think about it a little bit, When you compile you can optimize for you processor, etc.... Now I would like to see a package distribution that was source based. Not tar or rpm. Something that compiles in the background installs, move the binaries, and libs to the correct places.
Actually the best thing I have seen so far is the ports collection for FreeBSD, extremely user friendly, all compiled all optimized, dependencies get resolved, it is pure heaven
Is this guy trying to incite a flameware or something. Not only was his article completely misinformed. I think he is missing a major point. Yes free software is good but If all software is free then where is the incentive for companies to develop cutting edge stuff. Come on give me a break Torvalds has to pay the rent somehow, not to mention that he is slamming Torvalds, it isnt Torvald's company he isnt the CEO, or even the CIO he is an engineer(a brilliant famous one), but still an engineer, he doesnt have control over what Transmeta does with it products. I going to stop now this article dissapoints me.
Hmm it seems to me that all this is.. is a well...rant. He trying to make some play on Free speech when there isnt even an issue.
Take for isntance documentaries, like on the Discovery channel. I they just piped out the data recorded raw right into the audience it wouldnt make for a good, or even informative show. If a comapany is going to spend the time to moderate and filter out the crap from public domain speech and put the data they feel important on their media then more power to them. Anyway that is what people have done for years, the media never correctly portrays the full scope of any particular subject, just what people want to hear.
Hell even Slasdot does it. So again I ask what is the point of this article..... none really, its just some guy blowing crap out his mouth trying to sound pretentious and just, when he is probably just out for personal glory....
couple this with a little mindstorm inventiveness and you have hours of fun and enjoyment (pain?). I have already programming my mindstorm bot to chase our black cat around the apartment. ....
Ouch*
Just got a mental picture of my poor cat getting pelted by volleys of high speed legos.
dude all he has to do is a "view source" it is pretty damn flamin obvious. hehehe
Hmmmm could be interesting... the images part isnt bad but I think that this little hole allows any arbitrary html to seep into the page, hence nasty javascript re-directs pop-ups windows and all sorts of fun stuff like that lets hope it get fixed soon.
AOL is definitely being a pain in the ass in this respect. This is classic M$ monopply tactics. Though I dont know if it justifies a 8 billion dollar lawsuit. Then again what the hell sue the hell out of them the message needs to go across that its wrong for large companies to take advantage of their power.
What the hell is so special about this I could probably do this with a couple of set of lego mindstorms. The test environment isnt chaotic enough to consider the monkey navigation anything special. The same thing could be done with wieghts and pulleys given enogh time.? I just dont get the point......
why do good posts like this get a score of 0, and post that say "I hate M$" get a score of 5.
I am interesting mostly in the name we can now say that linux can support OpenGL instead of saying "well we kinda have this MEsa thing* big companies dont like using technology like Mesa with a few exceptions *cough idsoftware*.
Hopefully this will give devs to final push to start porting 3d apps to linux. I can see it now
Consumer: "Hey linux has FULL support for OPenGL"
Dev: "Hmmm cool maybe Ill have to mess around with that".
What the hell am I talking about its 8:00Am and my coffee hasnt finished brewing, and I need my coffee to write karma-compliant posts.
While I am not an expert on the matter here is a suggestion: :)
There is alway RedHat.... :)
1. find a company that uses your product, as a main part of their solution, preferably one you would want to work at
2. Then along with working on their solution you can also work on yours along with adding specialized functionality with the product, as long as it maintains its GPL license which it has too:)
3. In effect you become a little mini-VAR just for their company. This allows you to get paid for developing you product.
4. It is just one suggestion, It may not be the best or the most obvious but I beleive it is a valid suggstion.
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This sounds like what Apple did in the early days of the Apple2, I think this is a good mocve redhat to get kids familiarized with this technology early on so I becomes second-nature. Now the only question is will kids use it?
Also I would be wise to do a similiar sort of thing will the US education system, if they can. Are there any sort of provisions prevented them from doing this? There is usually a whole pile of contracts and legal crap that goes along with stuff of this nature.
It would be nice to see this in US schools.
Can you SMP Athlons..?
I am considering getting a SMP box running and right now I have 2(370 Overclocked Celerons) in mind maybe I should change this to Athlons.
Come lets here you suggestions for the best non Intel SMP machine....
This is unfortunate, I was looking forward to this particular product. I prefer the good ol' command line, but there comes a time when I want to slop something together without constructing a makefile, etc...
I think the biggest strength of this product is luring developers who are used to a GUI into Linux, and OpenSource development. A lot of developers a deterred from participating in OpenSource projects due to having to learn a set archaic compiler commands (which I love).
A Lot of developers that I know havent even created their own makefiles before. They have done all of it with VisualStudio, or CodeWarrior on the Macintosh.
CodeWarrior isnt a replacement for good old gcc, but it is a bonus perk for people who want to get up to speed quickly in the type of development environment they are used to.
yeah that sounds nice..... I think W2K will finish booting by the time your plane arrives.
Now that is really what I like seeing from the Opensource community. GeForce drivers before the thing has become mainstream.
If the 3D co-processor in the GetForce catches on then Linux will be right there with big boys as far as compatibility. Now all we have to do is convince people to starts using OpenGL instead of DirectX, and come one lets see Mesa nVidia TNT2 drivers already
hmmm get a couple of these together, and set up a RAMDrive then you have a new definition of performance filesystem. :)
I bet with 1GB of this RAM Win2K would still take about 1/2 hour to boot.
I not trying to belittle college, but most college CS programs are woefully inadequete for the current technology.
The only thing colleges can teach that is applicable to the work place is general copmuting topics and techniques, linked lists, and some of the most technologies like C\C++, UNIX, and Perl.
This industry is more chaotic than others. I think that more attention needs to paid to early computer education, on the grade-school level. People need to learn general copmuter theory in gradeschool not college.
A standard Bachelor's degree takes around 4 years, I am sure that slashdot readers recognize the changes that can occur in time period. Personally I am a college dropout, but when I go back to finish I am not going to major in something other than CS. (probably architecture)....
Most computer systems and applicable uses for computer stem from existing integration with other technologies, like financial systems, where a degree has more weight. Computer programming requires more than a degree, it requires intelligence, innovation, dedication, and hubris/pride in your work.
Some of the best programmers/developers I know dont have degrees in CS.
It seems that alot of people who get CS degrees fo it for the money, and not for the vision. For them its a career path so they can buy there new luxury SUVs, and get there screaming brats cell phones, and gap clothes.
The marketplace is changing, employees no longer care about employees as much, cradle to grave is a joke. The new workplace is dynamic and fast paced, and the people that will excell in it are people you adapt to change, IMHO opinion college is to rooted in traditional work values to teach that.
I will end this rant now. Dont get me wrong college is great, and it is a *neccesity*, but in the computer industry CS arent as relevant.humbly end rant
They answered all of the questions in the interview intelligently, and fairly. It seems that the members of the lopht are intelligent sentient beings, and not whining script kiddies.
Also they brought up a very good point "uninformed citizens are the greatest threat to personal liberties on the net". How else would you explain the dominance of AOL, and M$ operatin systems
I do have this feeling that kids that are growing up right now, ppl that are immersed in technology from day one will know better and see through the marketing crap. Ill stop becuase I am rambling now, and slightly off-topic.
BTW: Hapy New Years!!!!
Yet another reason for me to switch to a real un*x distro like freebsd....
mmmmm Sun UltraSparc... drrrooooolll....
I thinks they both create good chipsets but this little battle royale has reaped benefits for consumers. If Intel had it their way the P2 would just be introduced. What if M$ had a competitor like AMD to Intel. Oh well, could it be linux... lets hope so.
Seriously what did he really do to deserve this "honor". I wish Time would stop rewarding business skills and commercialism, and start honoring innovation and integrity.
It seems that they just wanted someone to capture the spirit of the digital revolution, and some clueless journalist just picked some ass out of the air, a name that people would recognize.
I know that I am going to get flamed for this but lets try to be fair and mature about it. Good ol Bill "the evil tycoon" Gates donated billions to charity this year. While I dont agree with some of M$'s business tactics, I respect Bill Gates for this.
I think Time should make that "I kiss you guy" guy man of the year, just out of spite.
P.S. Happy Holidays :)
I think IM needs a standard. Pagers have standards. email has standard (SMTP,POP3)
web has standards (HTTP,HTTPS)
Its time to take the IM war out of the hands of coporations who want to make money and into the hands of the users, where it will benefit all.