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People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz
Huh?
if people see strangers using stuff, and think its cool, they'll use it; but if they see strangers using stuff, and those strangers are getting PAID for it... then people suddenly wont want to use it, even if they think it's cool?
Hmm. actually, I think there were TWO TV series' on narnia, and one was better than the other.
I seem to recall that one of them had a really STUPID looking Aslan, but was very good in character portrayal.
if you disagree, please state WHAT was stupid about them.
I have enjoyed reading the Narnia series, but am alittle weary of the movies. C.S. Lewis is a great author, and I would hate to see his books turned into not so great of movie.
The BBC series was VERY close to the books, as you might expect. (no damn hollywood "make it our own" motivation).
I think they will remain the best 'screen' adaptation. I think narnia is best left as a very personal experience. As such, in some ways, I'm not sure it even belongs on "the big screen".
leaving it 'up to them' (via 'who produces the least') can lead to internal sabotage/stealing/nastiness. Be aware of what types of people you are dealing with, before considering this option. Because odds are that you may end up firing the most straightforward/honest person, and thats actually the person you want to keep the most.
Because you repeatedly sack another guy on the team and hire someone better?
Well, duh.;)
No, because 10 people on a project is too many, so you eliminate some overhead, plus trying to drag along the dead weight, plus the overall quality of the code is improved by removing his trash code, which in turn makes it easier/faster to add NEW code,...
It seems common to rave about akira. But I am less than impressed with it as a whole work. To me, it is a potentially good story, with some really beautiful animation scenes here and there, mixed in with just too much gratuitous violence and grossness. I mean, the bike chase scene is beautiful, with great 'director' choices, with the trailing lights. but theres just too much focus on, "something is going to blow up/die/get twisted - lets focus on it in gruesome detail for as long as we can get away with it"
Incorrect. Debian only has IN MAIN, software that complie with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That includes GNU, AND other licenses.
And then there's a buncha stuff in 'contrib', that isnt strictly 'opensource', but IS 'freely distributable'.
Besides which, Logitech has the 'firstmouse' that does exactly the same thing (optical, on any surface), and is the same price. no reason to buy that M$ junk now.
In Java, you can have a reference of type Object, which will point to any kind of object. But you can't really do anything with it, other then pass it around and store it. You can't call methods on it without figuring out what type it is.
In Objective-C, you can call those methods.
???
How is that significantly different from java?
Cant you just cast the Object to whatever you like, and if it doesnt match up with the new cast, it gets an exception thrown??
. P.S. He might want to ask the people at SendMail how they make a profit:-)
I thought they made it by selling a proprietary version of sendmail that you're not allowed to use without paying them money.
And you may or not get source, but are you allowed to redistribute it? or binaries even?
I'm not sure, but i think the answer to both of those questions is 'no'.which makes it neither free software, nor 'open source'
Why are all the people I know who actively contribute to open source projects so darn wealthy?
Becuas they got in on.com IPOs that had no actual profit, but milked the gullible greedy investors?
They didnt get rich from selling their work, or even something derived from their work. they got rich from hype.
(or something completely unrelated to their opensource work)
...Mostly like any HTML page is today. Design theft occurs occasionally, but still there are plenty of people who pay web developers to build a site for them. If HTML code was compiled and unreadable, what would the web be today? Didn't most of us learn website coding by copying HTML/CSS/Script snippets from other pages? Has the webdesign industry died because of it?
This is different from what you are presumably refuting, "if all code was open-source, it would kill the industry".
Web-pages are UNIQUE TO A SITE. You cant take an entire site, clone it, and then use it in your own site. You have to modify it specifically for each purpose. This is because web pages are intrinsically 'information'.
This is in contrast to software, which is intrinsically 'functional'.
Two different realms. Microsoft, et. al. make their fortunes because lots of people need to accomplish the same functionality. They sell software to allow people to accomplish a function.
Whereas web designers sell their own labour, to accomplish the desired 'function' (make me a web site).
You cant clone labour for essentially zero cost. Whereas you can do that with software.
Most programmers are employed developing custom systems that never leave the buyer's premises. In such cases, software licensing is irrelevant.
Thats very short-sighted of you.
Currently, your own premise implies that there is a lot of duplicate work done, because the software never leaves the place that it was written, which means that either the same people get to make recurring money, or more people get to make a certain amount each .
If that software was GPLd, then it WOULD leave the premises one way or another, and make it out into the wild.
If there is then more free software out there, covering a wider variety of application than your average 'shrink-wrap' stuff, that means less of a demand for programmers-for-hire, too.
How many of you stay logged in on slashdot when come back to the site? That wouldn't be possible without "maintaining state" between visits.
However, it is not neccessary to allow THIRD PARTIES (aka the websites themselves) to save state on YOUR computer, to do this.
That's what mozilla 'password manager' is for.
For any additional state, the website should invest in some decent web server software, that is capable of saving user-linked state on the SERVER, without crashing/caving under the load of all those.ASP scripts.
Once the user has identified themselves via the standard HTTP auth type mechanisms, it should then be up to the server to say, "okay, I remember you; here's where you should be now".
Additionally, if you for some reason prefer the 'companion CD' packages to the sunfreeware ones... you can use pkg-get for them too.
configure it to point to one of
They only offer their free Solaris license for 2= CPU systems and not for commercial applications, iirc.
wrong, and wrong.
Right now, you can buy the media for $45, you can run it on as many machines as you like, with 1-8 cpus, and you can do whatever you want with it, commercial or otherwise.
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I think it would be a great idea to "clean up" java.
:-)
However, I disagree with almost every single idea the guy has about 'clean'.
Basic types like 'int', should STAY in.
Char should stay at 2 bytes. strings are bloated enough already, and we dont need explicit klingon support
XML is a bloated pig. I thought the object was to REDUCE bloat, not increase it. So converting configs to XML makes no sense as 'cleanup'
and lots of other things that I'm wondering what the heck went through his head.
People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz
Huh?
if people see strangers using stuff, and think its cool, they'll use it; but if they see strangers using stuff, and those strangers are getting PAID for it... then people suddenly wont want to use it, even if they think it's cool?
What was that guy smoking, anyway?
I seem to recall that one of them had a really STUPID looking Aslan, but was very good in character portrayal. if you disagree, please state WHAT was stupid about them.
The BBC series was VERY close to the books, as you might expect. (no damn hollywood "make it our own" motivation).
I think they will remain the best 'screen' adaptation. I think narnia is best left as a very personal experience. As such, in some ways, I'm not sure it even belongs on "the big screen".
leaving it 'up to them' (via 'who produces the least') can lead to internal sabotage/stealing/nastiness. Be aware of what types of people you are dealing with, before considering this option. Because odds are that you may end up firing the most straightforward/honest person, and thats actually the person you want to keep the most.
No, because 10 people on a project is too many, so you eliminate some overhead, plus trying to drag along the dead weight, plus the overall quality of the code is improved by removing his trash code, which in turn makes it easier/faster to add NEW code, ...
there are two kinds of uber-programmer:
A) the kind that does everything 'THEIR WAY', and no-one can follow it, thus they are bad for a team
B) The kind that is simply a better programmer than most people, and can get good things done faster.
Sounds like you have had too much experience with the former, but the poster is one of the latter.
got a preferred URL for 'purchased from Japan' ?
It seems common to rave about akira. But I am less than impressed with it as a whole work. To me, it is a potentially good story, with some really beautiful animation scenes here and there, mixed in with just too much gratuitous violence and grossness. I mean, the bike chase scene is beautiful, with great 'director' choices, with the trailing lights. but theres just too much focus on, "something is going to blow up/die/get twisted - lets focus on it in gruesome detail for as long as we can get away with it"
Yuk.
I think you can shorten that to, 'the US audiences [are] not known for reading'
"None so blind as they who wont see" [refuse to see]
Incorrect. Debian only has IN MAIN, software that complie with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That includes GNU, AND other licenses. And then there's a buncha stuff in 'contrib', that isnt strictly 'opensource', but IS 'freely distributable'.
Besides which, Logitech has the 'firstmouse' that does exactly the same thing (optical, on any surface), and is the same price. no reason to buy that M$ junk now.
In Objective-C, you can call those methods.
???
How is that significantly different from java? Cant you just cast the Object to whatever you like, and if it doesnt match up with the new cast, it gets an exception thrown??
There are free java servlet engines, and jsp generators. There are free jvms.
I thought they made it by selling a proprietary version of sendmail that you're not allowed to use without paying them money. And you may or not get source, but are you allowed to redistribute it? or binaries even?
I'm not sure, but i think the answer to both of those questions is 'no'.which makes it neither free software, nor 'open source'
Becuas they got in on .com IPOs that had no actual profit, but milked the gullible greedy investors?
They didnt get rich from selling their work, or even something derived from their work. they got rich from hype. (or something completely unrelated to their opensource work)
This is different from what you are presumably refuting, "if all code was open-source, it would kill the industry".
Web-pages are UNIQUE TO A SITE. You cant take an entire site, clone it, and then use it in your own site. You have to modify it specifically for each purpose. This is because web pages are intrinsically 'information'.
This is in contrast to software, which is intrinsically 'functional'. Two different realms. Microsoft, et. al. make their fortunes because lots of people need to accomplish the same functionality. They sell software to allow people to accomplish a function.
Whereas web designers sell their own labour, to accomplish the desired 'function' (make me a web site).
You cant clone labour for essentially zero cost. Whereas you can do that with software.
Thats very short-sighted of you.
Currently, your own premise implies that there is a lot of duplicate work done, because the software never leaves the place that it was written, which means that either the same people get to make recurring money, or more people get to make a certain amount each .
If that software was GPLd, then it WOULD leave the premises one way or another, and make it out into the wild.
If there is then more free software out there, covering a wider variety of application than your average 'shrink-wrap' stuff, that means less of a demand for programmers-for-hire, too.
However, it is not neccessary to allow THIRD PARTIES (aka the websites themselves) to save state on YOUR computer, to do this.
That's what mozilla 'password manager' is for.
For any additional state, the website should invest in some decent web server software, that is capable of saving user-linked state on the SERVER, without crashing/caving under the load of all those .ASP scripts.
Once the user has identified themselves via the standard HTTP auth type mechanisms, it should then be up to the server to say, "okay, I remember you; here's where you should be now".
You have to get pkg-get yourself.
Actually, you can use pkg-get with solaris packages. Point it at a CD or nfs-shared dir.
Also, while sunfreeware.com frames the pkg-get page, its home page is actually http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/pkg-get.html
Additionally, if you for some reason prefer the 'companion CD' packages to the sunfreeware ones... you can use pkg-get for them too. configure it to point to one of
wrong, and wrong.
Right now, you can buy the media for $45, you can run it on as many machines as you like, with 1-8 cpus, and you can do whatever you want with it, commercial or otherwise.
QFEs are only for sparc, not x86.
Besides which, I thought sun was stopping making them now.
Even though sun doesnt officially "support" laptops, Solaris still runs on a heck of a lot of em.
http://www.bolthole.com/solaris/x86-laptops.html
Ms-word can read other things besides .doc.
Have you tried .RTF?