It can be a good thing if implemented properly. If you have several equivalent applications/IDEs/languages then trimming some out is very helpful.
For example no need to use perl, python, and php for a web app, just do everything in one. I've seen some setups where you have php rendering a page, perl doing some text parsing, python as a script glue *shudders*... sure you exploit the best area of each but when debugging or maintenance comes around it's a horrible, disjointed mess of spaghetti. (In the above case I would do everything with a good php framework)
As far as IDEs, you may get little 'weirdnesses' like whitespace not aligning right, peculiarities with a SVN server, etc... If you can find one that handles everything you need, go for it.
On the other hand, nothing sucks more than needing a particular tool and it not being available due to some stupid policy.
If you need a particular tool because no other is suited for that purpose, then use it.
The two major under the hood improvements of FF3 over 2 are render speedups and memory leak fixes. As you say, 2 is about the same as IE7, if not a bit slower, but 3 is definetly faster. Check it out!
I was watching a show about tropical rain forests, in which scientists were explaining the amazing diversity of plant species found there.
They examined plots where there would be many different species in a small amount of space, and where members of the same species would be far from each other.
In a hot and humid environment, disease causing organisms, whether fungus or bacterial, spread at a very high rate. Any plant species that grows too closely together gets wiped out, so there is a lot of pressure for diversity.
Apply this to the current OS ecosystem - you have one 'species' covering almost all the land, and densely packed. If a disease breaks out, it spreads very quickly to many individuals.
Having a greater diversity of OSes would be a real drag for spammers, bot-herders, ID thiefs, etc.
Except no decision has been made yet.
The two management boards will then decide whether the appeals should be further processed or not. They are simply "considering" the appeals. All MS has to do is stack the two management boards (should be at leats partly there already, considering almost all of ISO has been tampered with), and get them to reject the appeals.
There is only a faint glimmer of hope, a pinhole of light at the end of the tunnel.
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"What's the sound of one hand adjusting a timing belt?" Your question can be best answered by another question -- "what is the sound of one piston clapping?"
BTW, the pdf letter linked in TFA is a great read, perfect summary of all the problems that were so apparent to anyone actually looking into the whole mess.
First off, I never claimed to be an expert on OLPC, if you had read my post you would see that I'm only summarizing what the author stated.
Second, it seems you're not getting what the author is saying either. He is not suggesting taking all of sugar's features and porting them to windows like in the link you provided. Here's what you said:
For this document, I will assume that "Sugar" means the "new things"
which are goals of the XO system. Here's what the blogger is saying:
We [argue strongly that we should] decouple the Sugar UI from the Sugar technologies weâ(TM)ve developed such as sharing, collaboration, the presence service, the data store, and so forth. IOW, it leaves only your 2. Activities, which you yourself say:
This course is moderately difficult. Python and GTK are "cross-platform" of course, but in practice many platform dependencies are inadvertently added to Python/GTK code; From my experience writing cross-platform python code, in many cases those platform dependencies arise from bad programming practices. For application programming, not lower level stuff of course.
No I read it, just assumed you meant "means", as it was not very clear.
You're right about the Hadith, of course, though I'm sure you are aware that not all Muslims follow it.
As for the Koran quote, I'm sure fundamentalists would use it to sanctify their murdering ways, but it seems to me that that would be stretching it a bit.
This applied to EVERYTHING before copyright law, not just religious texts. Not always, for example it was forbidden for non-priests to read the Christian bible during medieval times. The Romans, OTOH, had no such restrictions (at least at the time of Julius Caesar).
Now, that might not be a problem for you, but applying it just to religions would be unfair. If this was to apply to anyone who actually received tax money, I'd be all for it. You bring up a very valid point, but I do think religions, by their very nature, do warrant special treatment. All religions, one way or another, are all about control. By controlling beliefs and morals you control thought, by controlling thought you control actions. This makes religion particularly dangerous in a democratic and liberal society such as our own. Therefore I believe some transparency should be required on their part.
NPOs are about pushing an agenda or delivering a service, but not controlling people in the same way religions are.
Regarding money received from taxes, I believe the government does require a certain level of transparency when giving out such grants.
disclaimer: while tolerant of people's beliefs, I do think all religion is inherently evil.
No, you don't have to be born muslim to be punished for apostasy. A convert is equally guilty. Note though that there is no prescribed earthly penalty (016.109), punishment is to be dealt by god in the 'hereafter'.
In 'The Gallic Wars' by Julius Caesar, book 6 chapter 14, there is a description of Gallic religious practices. The druids would not permit their texts to be written down, they had to be memorized. One reason being that as soon as a text was written it would pass into a sort of 'public domain' where non-druids could read it.
This sounds like something that should be in place today. Make all religious texts public domain, no exceptions. Religions are not for profit (well in theory) and they are tax-exempt, so they have no reason to have copyright. And they use copyright law to harass and bully their detractors. So take that power away from them.
Oh, Your religion wants hide something? Fine, memorize it.
I have, actually. Python makes this very easy, you don't need to worry about the underlying OS as long as you program in a platform-agnostic way, ie use os.path.join(path, file) rather than path + '\\' + file, and only use relative sizes and positioning for GUI elements.
You're right about testing though, even if there are no (or very few) code changes, you do need to test in every supported platform which takes time.
He's not saying it should only run on Windows, rather that it shouldn't matter what the OS is.
Now, pay close attention: while I'm unequivocally enthusiastic about Sugar being ported to every OS out there, I'm absolutely opposed to Windows as the single OS that OLPC offers for the XO. By making it cross-platform it would make it easier to develop and more accessible.
A Windows-compatible Sugar would bring its rich learning vision to potentially tens or hundreds of millions of children all over the world whose parents already own a Windows computer, be it laptop or desktop.
Exactly. The commission is already on it, so they modded BECTA's complaint -1 redundant. I think that they may call on BECTA when this goes to court, as I'm certain it will.
Also, BECTA's timing on this is impeccable!
BECTA's complaint arrived at the offices of the Commission's competition department just after Microsoft decided to appeal against the 899 million euro (US$1.3 billion) fine it received earlier this year for failing to honor the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it.
Except it doesn't really take that long to write 16K lines, so it's sort of a weak boast. Depends on the code, no? I mean if you're doing GUI stuff you can easily have tons of lines just for your buttons and forms, but a complex algorithm that takes weeks to get just right could be pretty short.
Maybe someone with experience with this sort of development can elaborate on the difficulty of the code.
I would love to go on one of those flights with some nice photography equipment. You really couldn't ask for a better platform for aerial photography: slow, stable, and not too high. The fact that the city and the surrounding area are beautiful doesn't hurt either! IF they actually build it (we've been hearing about the return of dirigibles to the US for years now) I would go for a ride next time I'm around San Fran.
Photoshop CS2 is usable in Linux now.
I still have a windows partition on my home computer , but I find myself really only using it for games. At work all our dev boxes are linux.
Remember when the biggest issue with Linux was the lack of drivers? Lack of applications is the next challenge, one that is getting closer to being solved all the time.
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Try yellow dog linux. And yes they can cluster them.
It can be a good thing if implemented properly. If you have several equivalent applications/IDEs/languages then trimming some out is very helpful. ... sure you exploit the best area of each but when debugging or maintenance comes around it's a horrible, disjointed mess of spaghetti. (In the above case I would do everything with a good php framework) ... If you can find one that handles everything you need, go for it.
For example no need to use perl, python, and php for a web app, just do everything in one. I've seen some setups where you have php rendering a page, perl doing some text parsing, python as a script glue *shudders*
As far as IDEs, you may get little 'weirdnesses' like whitespace not aligning right, peculiarities with a SVN server, etc
On the other hand, nothing sucks more than needing a particular tool and it not being available due to some stupid policy.
If you need a particular tool because no other is suited for that purpose, then use it.
I've been using IE 6 & 7 under wine, works great!
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The two major under the hood improvements of FF3 over 2 are render speedups and memory leak fixes.
As you say, 2 is about the same as IE7, if not a bit slower, but 3 is definetly faster.
Check it out!
I was watching a show about tropical rain forests, in which scientists were explaining the amazing diversity of plant species found there.
They examined plots where there would be many different species in a small amount of space, and where members of the same species would be far from each other.
In a hot and humid environment, disease causing organisms, whether fungus or bacterial, spread at a very high rate. Any plant species that grows too closely together gets wiped out, so there is a lot of pressure for diversity.
Apply this to the current OS ecosystem - you have one 'species' covering almost all the land, and densely packed. If a disease breaks out, it spreads very quickly to many individuals.
Having a greater diversity of OSes would be a real drag for spammers, bot-herders, ID thiefs, etc.
I say the sooner the better!
Try it with something as recent (less than 2 years) as ubuntu 6.10 and it will not work.
Somehow I doubt this. If England, France, Germany and China (for example) had made the appeals, I would be more optimistic.
There is only a faint glimmer of hope, a pinhole of light at the end of the tunnel.
Thank you South Africa!
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BTW, the pdf letter linked in TFA is a great read, perfect summary of all the problems that were so apparent to anyone actually looking into the whole mess.
Second, it seems you're not getting what the author is saying either. He is not suggesting taking all of sugar's features and porting them to windows like in the link you provided. Here's what you said: For this document, I will assume that "Sugar" means the "new things" which are goals of the XO system. Here's what the blogger is saying: We [argue strongly that we should] decouple the Sugar UI from the Sugar technologies weâ(TM)ve developed such as sharing, collaboration, the presence service, the data store, and so forth. IOW, it leaves only your 2. Activities, which you yourself say: This course is moderately difficult. Python and GTK are "cross-platform" of course, but in practice many platform dependencies are inadvertently added to Python/GTK code; From my experience writing cross-platform python code, in many cases those platform dependencies arise from bad programming practices. For application programming, not lower level stuff of course.
No I read it, just assumed you meant "means", as it was not very clear.
You're right about the Hadith, of course, though I'm sure you are aware that not all Muslims follow it.
As for the Koran quote, I'm sure fundamentalists would use it to sanctify their murdering ways, but it seems to me that that would be stretching it a bit.
NPOs are about pushing an agenda or delivering a service, but not controlling people in the same way religions are.
Regarding money received from taxes, I believe the government does require a certain level of transparency when giving out such grants.
disclaimer: while tolerant of people's beliefs, I do think all religion is inherently evil.
No, you don't have to be born muslim to be punished for apostasy. A convert is equally guilty. Note though that there is no prescribed earthly penalty (016.109), punishment is to be dealt by god in the 'hereafter'.
In 'The Gallic Wars' by Julius Caesar, book 6 chapter 14, there is a description of Gallic religious practices. The druids would not permit their texts to be written down, they had to be memorized. One reason being that as soon as a text was written it would pass into a sort of 'public domain' where non-druids could read it.
This sounds like something that should be in place today. Make all religious texts public domain, no exceptions. Religions are not for profit (well in theory) and they are tax-exempt, so they have no reason to have copyright. And they use copyright law to harass and bully their detractors. So take that power away from them.
Oh, Your religion wants hide something? Fine, memorize it.
I have, actually. Python makes this very easy, you don't need to worry about the underlying OS as long as you program in a platform-agnostic way, ie use os.path.join(path, file) rather than path + '\\' + file, and only use relative sizes and positioning for GUI elements.
You're right about testing though, even if there are no (or very few) code changes, you do need to test in every supported platform which takes time.
Sugar is made with python/gtk, there is no technical reason it can't run on many different platforms, in fact it already does for development.
The reasons the user version does not are, according to the author, political and philosophical.
By making it cross-platform it would make it easier to develop and more accessible. A Windows-compatible Sugar would bring its rich learning vision to potentially tens or hundreds of millions of children all over the world whose parents already own a Windows computer, be it laptop or desktop.
Also, BECTA's timing on this is impeccable! BECTA's complaint arrived at the offices of the Commission's competition department just after Microsoft decided to appeal against the 899 million euro (US$1.3 billion) fine it received earlier this year for failing to honor the Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling against it.
but when are they going to send all the other lawyers in space?
Maybe someone with experience with this sort of development can elaborate on the difficulty of the code.
I would love to go on one of those flights with some nice photography equipment. You really couldn't ask for a better platform for aerial photography: slow, stable, and not too high. The fact that the city and the surrounding area are beautiful doesn't hurt either!
IF they actually build it (we've been hearing about the return of dirigibles to the US for years now) I would go for a ride next time I'm around San Fran.
Photoshop CS2 is usable in Linux now.
I still have a windows partition on my home computer , but I find myself really only using it for games. At work all our dev boxes are linux.
Remember when the biggest issue with Linux was the lack of drivers? Lack of applications is the next challenge, one that is getting closer to being solved all the time.