How I hate Slashcode lookalikes as frontends for project homepages. You're spending hours looking to find a simple project introduction, FAQ or screenshots...
1) Integrate seemless plug-in support into Mozilla.
Hey, if you wanted to say "Java", just say it. Otherwise, it's there.
2) Make Open Office slicker/ handle Mickeysoft documents better.
Constantly being worked on.
3) Make a spreadsheet that doesn't suck.
Gnumeric?
4) Make is to that I can actually cut and paste weird stuff between applications.
Ouch!;-)
5) Make is so that my PC can get updated just by clicking on items and not chasing down library incompatiblites or typing "rpm --force" or "make install" or whatever.
Turns out that I'm just too young to have ever voted for the EU parliament!
This might sound stupid to you, but this is really great news, because I honestly never knew I were to vote! And yes, as the other replyer suggested, I'll check the parliament's website, too...
As a Dutch EU citizen I've never been able to vote for *anything* decided on EU level. AFAIK, we can't even vote for our representatives in the Parliament. In fact, I've only got very vague ideas on who represents the Netherlands.
The problem here is that the EU makes very much laws which directly apply to the member countries. For one, we (the Dutch people) have never directly been asked to participate with the Euro.
Another problem in the past were the EU restrictions for supplying medications to farm animals in response to one of the recent plaugues (can't remember which). These restrictions have been decided on by the parliament, and then fed back to the countries' governments. With problems like the above, the governments only have themselves to blame because they send their representatives.
You see that the people are entirely left out of the responsability loop which keeps the EU parliament running. Today, a mostly anonymous parliament has again decided upon a new European law - this time with more input from the people than ever before, but this is only because we're paying enough attention.
I'm not saying that the system completely stinks. But I am wondering whether the lack of direct democracy at the EU level is a flaw of the EU "design".
Don't you forget about the Genocide Act. I laughed my head off. And that was NOT because I thought the law was stupid - it was because almost all US (Bush, Iraq, you know) officials feared going to brussels because of the risk of being arrested...
One could easily claim that while programming today is all OO, data storage is still left in the procedural era (in fact, there's indeed too much OO-Relational mapping to back this up).
The biggest problem is of course to make an understandable and flexible solution. To be honest, at first sight, I don't understand sh*t of Prevayler, while other so-called OODB's I "know", never seemed to care much about (more or less) language-independent mapping; they just stored serialized objects. A product of my own just mapped some basic datatypes to an RDBMS (which works, BTW, just fine for data objects).
I would welcome someone who would be able to answer these in only a few words:
- Does Pv only store data objects, or also other program runtime objects (like with Smalltalk)? - Do they attempt language-independent storage? - Is the storage structure searchable/ readable?
That is megaBITS per second, for which this notation is completely correct. I know it's confusing, but that's how this world is made up.
As the article specifically states, hard drives are made "per bit", but sold "per byte", thus the rounding error between the number of megaBITs and the number of megaBYTEs.
Being an "artist" myself, and even having vague plans at earning my money with this after my (unrelated) study, I'm afraid I must disagree with McCloud saying that art isn't a commodity.
Funny though that Dictionary.com has a rather interesting definition of the word "commodity" with relation to McCloud's comments, but I'm sure that McCloud tries to say that a commodity is "something that you can just take for granted".
We may not realize this, but our "modern" culture, like any other culture before it, relies on the availability of the art that underwrites it. Belonging to a culture is still something that is expressed through music, art, fashion and religion. People don't like restricted access to culture. Music, cartoons, whatever art it is that you like, it becomes part of your life, and part of your culture. (Striking example: how many `80's songs do you like to hear, while you agree at the same time that they suck -- just because you grew up in the `80's and you can share something with your friends through this music?)
Life, even in our Western world, would not be so nice if we all threw out our stereos, radios, comic strips, TV's, bioscopes, monuments and ALL other ways in which we access art, and thus culture.
Art is a gift to culture, and should thus be a gift to the people. Like anyone else, artists should make a living. They should definately find some way to calculate their hours of work into their products. But the art should be free for all of us willing to enjoy and extend it (bar stuff like trademarks that put some structure in the "development process" of our art).
Now get out there and start making business models again!;-)
I'm not sure about the "ferris wheel", but a lot of "3d" representations could be done in 2d, e.g. showing lines between folders and scaling according to focus or size of folders/ files...
Remember that 2001 also didn't have any clue worth noticing? And that you were afraid that you were the only one missing the clue? And that that was the reasone why nobody dared to say it was crap? And that it became a famous movie just because of that?
They claim that the database be replaced by the filesystem.
Should we just put them in a room together and let 'em fight out, or anticipate for a middle-way solution (e.g. ReiserFS being the storage system for Storage) before there is no middle way anymore?
Accidentally, just today I've learned that it takes an extra license for the water part, as you need a shipper's license (or whaddayacallit) if you go > 20 km/ h on a motorized boat.
Well, that's how I always felt when America was playing silly on these topics again (and that's quite often...) So let's make a deal... I do Europe for you, you do America for me?;-)
I'm rehearsing this for when I jump into the camera's tomorrow:-)
3 issues:
1. General patentability issue
Do patents protect and encourage the new inventor, or do they protect large businesses and monopolies? Practice would sometimes point out the last.
2. Software patent issue
If you invent a phonograph, you make it, sell it, done. Not so for software. Software is a stack-up of tons and tons of previous "inventions" (algorithms, or ways of doing something). You can't write a piece of software without "inventing" something along the way, but you also can't avoid to use previous "inventions". Software inventions should be seen as common field knowledge that needs to be shared. And I say needs; we would not have come past the MS-DOS age without this.
3. Free Software issue
Free Software doesn't only share the ideas of software, but also their implementations. Again, we would not have been far without Free Software of any kind (you can at least forget the Internet and Mac OS X, but there are more detailed examples that will tell you that you can forget A LOT of software). Simply put, Free Software relies on open (unowned) algorithms and program ideas, but has no model (like businesses have) for buying licenses to use "owned" ideas. IOW, the Free Software world would ultimately disappear as a result of patent law.
Summary: while patents MAY stink for business in general, they would simply DESTROY our software world as we know it, and replace it with something where our normal everyday innovation is very hard to find.
If you are an European and able to visit Brussels tomorrow, please do so! It doesn't occur much that we Europeans have a good opportunity to get ourselfs heard on these topics.
See here for info. You can visit Brussels by train from many a European country; see here
Hope this all isn't slashdotted before I will plan my own trip this afternoon.
Didn't Terry Pratchett already write about that strange red light being another "planet" on a collision with "Earth"? Now that would be a spectacle to witness...
Whatever it is, coming back from a two-week holiday and shocked to see my real mailbox all stuffed up, I was very happy to see that my virtual mailbox contained less junk -- I expected something with two zeroes, but only had, like, twenty SPAM mails or so. I imagine I sometimes receive that much within a day.
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The difference with SCO is that Corel has had a positive attitude towards linux. They contributed a lot to the wine project while developing Corel Draw and WP for Linux. I would be very surprised if they turn around 180 degrees all of a sudden.
Wasn't Caldera the Linux company that bought the original UNIX code while we all cheered and expected it to finally become Free Software?
I'm talking out of my own memory here, but this IS what I remember of it.
The need to write in style (biu) on the Web is already demonstrated by Slashdot. Luckily we're most techies here, so you can sell HTML as a "logical way" of biu-ing.
For the latter, there's not much need for a web-based gallery/ selling system if it's not on the web, eh?:-)
Thing is, HTML widgets were created when the need for this wasn't present. Nowadays every GUI toolkit enables programmers and users to write in style to certain extents. People expect it for Web maintenance systems. Ordering of objects (e.g. of pages) is also something that keeps popping up. (Admitted, there's also no single way to do this in GUI toolkits) The lack of controls we have makes these things hard to do in a user-friendly way.
Heh - thanks, and sorry I touched you personally there.
You're right to say that e.g. Israel may well be a far more dangerous place than e.g. the US, but what I was trying to say is that while everyone realizes this for Israel, the danger with the US may be that nobody sees the danger with the US. That is, it is seen as a completely civilized country, even though it may also have its edges. And it's these edges that I was trying to get a straight view on.
I guess Skylarov is an exception, but he's also an example of the problem (if I see this well): Adobe didn't like hime for what he did abroad (the cracking tool), so they just waited for him to come to America and cross the thin red DMCA line there (the lecture). Which is something the next low-profile American CS professor would probably never ever get busted for.
And yeah, I guess I'd be perfectly safe with my profile, but my moral principles are sometimes easily tickled, so I guess that's why I wrote the post in the first place. (I'm one of those people who think personal boycotts have a reason for existance outside of the 60's, which may sometimes have a very limiting impact on your viewpoints: "can't do this, can't do that".)
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How I hate Slashcode lookalikes as frontends for project homepages. You're spending hours looking to find a simple project introduction, FAQ or screenshots...
1) Integrate seemless plug-in support into Mozilla.
;-)
Hey, if you wanted to say "Java", just say it. Otherwise, it's there.
2) Make Open Office slicker/ handle Mickeysoft documents better.
Constantly being worked on.
3) Make a spreadsheet that doesn't suck.
Gnumeric?
4) Make is to that I can actually cut and paste weird stuff between applications.
Ouch!
5) Make is so that my PC can get updated just by clicking on items and not chasing down library incompatiblites or typing "rpm --force" or "make install" or whatever.
Debian
Allright!
Turns out that I'm just too young to have ever voted for the EU parliament!
This might sound stupid to you, but this is really great news, because I honestly never knew I were to vote! And yes, as the other replyer suggested, I'll check the parliament's website, too...
As a Dutch EU citizen I've never been able to vote for *anything* decided on EU level. AFAIK, we can't even vote for our representatives in the Parliament. In fact, I've only got very vague ideas on who represents the Netherlands.
The problem here is that the EU makes very much laws which directly apply to the member countries. For one, we (the Dutch people) have never directly been asked to participate with the Euro.
Another problem in the past were the EU restrictions for supplying medications to farm animals in response to one of the recent plaugues (can't remember which). These restrictions have been decided on by the parliament, and then fed back to the countries' governments. With problems like the above, the governments only have themselves to blame because they send their representatives.
You see that the people are entirely left out of the responsability loop which keeps the EU parliament running. Today, a mostly anonymous parliament has again decided upon a new European law - this time with more input from the people than ever before, but this is only because we're paying enough attention.
I'm not saying that the system completely stinks. But I am wondering whether the lack of direct democracy at the EU level is a flaw of the EU "design".
Don't you forget about the Genocide Act. I laughed my head off. And that was NOT because I thought the law was stupid - it was because almost all US (Bush, Iraq, you know) officials feared going to brussels because of the risk of being arrested...
One could easily claim that while programming today is all OO, data storage is still left in the procedural era (in fact, there's indeed too much OO-Relational mapping to back this up).
The biggest problem is of course to make an understandable and flexible solution. To be honest, at first sight, I don't understand sh*t of Prevayler, while other so-called OODB's I "know", never seemed to care much about (more or less) language-independent mapping; they just stored serialized objects. A product of my own just mapped some basic datatypes to an RDBMS (which works, BTW, just fine for data objects).
I would welcome someone who would be able to answer these in only a few words:
- Does Pv only store data objects, or also other program runtime objects (like with Smalltalk)?
- Do they attempt language-independent storage?
- Is the storage structure searchable/ readable?
Thanks.
I'm often wondering just how much of a profile people can make from me just by googling up my comments on Slashdot and linking them with my real name.
And no, this is not an invitation...
He is Ollie, you are Swen.
He is Ollie, you are Swen.
That is megaBITS per second, for which this notation is completely correct. I know it's confusing, but that's how this world is made up.
As the article specifically states, hard drives are made "per bit", but sold "per byte", thus the rounding error between the number of megaBITs and the number of megaBYTEs.
Still, you'd say that a "buffer overrun" (?) in a file called "buffer.c" would have been found earlier.
Being an "artist" myself, and even having vague plans at earning my money with this after my (unrelated) study, I'm afraid I must disagree with McCloud saying that art isn't a commodity.
;-)
Funny though that Dictionary.com has a rather interesting definition of the word "commodity" with relation to McCloud's comments, but I'm sure that McCloud tries to say that a commodity is "something that you can just take for granted".
We may not realize this, but our "modern" culture, like any other culture before it, relies on the availability of the art that underwrites it. Belonging to a culture is still something that is expressed through music, art, fashion and religion. People don't like restricted access to culture. Music, cartoons, whatever art it is that you like, it becomes part of your life, and part of your culture. (Striking example: how many `80's songs do you like to hear, while you agree at the same time that they suck -- just because you grew up in the `80's and you can share something with your friends through this music?)
Life, even in our Western world, would not be so nice if we all threw out our stereos, radios, comic strips, TV's, bioscopes, monuments and ALL other ways in which we access art, and thus culture.
Art is a gift to culture, and should thus be a gift to the people. Like anyone else, artists should make a living. They should definately find some way to calculate their hours of work into their products. But the art should be free for all of us willing to enjoy and extend it (bar stuff like trademarks that put some structure in the "development process" of our art).
Now get out there and start making business models again!
mustn't think about breaking the cable, though.... (fp)
I'm not sure about the "ferris wheel", but a lot of "3d" representations could be done in 2d, e.g. showing lines between folders and scaling according to focus or size of folders/ files...
...nature is at the mercy of YOU!!
(YASRC)
Remember that 2001 also didn't have any clue worth noticing? And that you were afraid that you were the only one missing the clue? And that that was the reasone why nobody dared to say it was crap? And that it became a famous movie just because of that?
I see a pattern here!
They claim that the database be replaced by the filesystem.
Should we just put them in a room together and let 'em fight out, or anticipate for a middle-way solution (e.g. ReiserFS being the storage system for Storage) before there is no middle way anymore?
Accidentally, just today I've learned that it takes an extra license for the water part, as you need a shipper's license (or whaddayacallit) if you go > 20 km/ h on a motorized boat.
So you need two licenses to drive one car!
Well, that's how I always felt when America was playing silly on these topics again (and that's quite often...) So let's make a deal... I do Europe for you, you do America for me? ;-)
I'm rehearsing this for when I jump into the camera's tomorrow :-)
3 issues:
1. General patentability issue
Do patents protect and encourage the new inventor, or do they protect large businesses and monopolies? Practice would sometimes point out the last.
2. Software patent issue
If you invent a phonograph, you make it, sell it, done. Not so for software. Software is a stack-up of tons and tons of previous "inventions" (algorithms, or ways of doing something). You can't write a piece of software without "inventing" something along the way, but you also can't avoid to use previous "inventions". Software inventions should be seen as common field knowledge that needs to be shared. And I say needs; we would not have come past the MS-DOS age without this.
3. Free Software issue
Free Software doesn't only share the ideas of software, but also their implementations. Again, we would not have been far without Free Software of any kind (you can at least forget the Internet and Mac OS X, but there are more detailed examples that will tell you that you can forget A LOT of software). Simply put, Free Software relies on open (unowned) algorithms and program ideas, but has no model (like businesses have) for buying licenses to use "owned" ideas. IOW, the Free Software world would ultimately disappear as a result of patent law.
Summary: while patents MAY stink for business in general, they would simply DESTROY our software world as we know it, and replace it with something where our normal everyday innovation is very hard to find.
If you are an European and able to visit Brussels tomorrow, please do so! It doesn't occur much that we Europeans have a good opportunity to get ourselfs heard on these topics.
See here for info. You can visit Brussels by train from many a European country; see here
Hope this all isn't slashdotted before I will plan my own trip this afternoon.
Didn't Terry Pratchett already write about that strange red light being another "planet" on a collision with "Earth"? Now that would be a spectacle to witness...
Whatever it is, coming back from a two-week holiday and shocked to see my real mailbox all stuffed up, I was very happy to see that my virtual mailbox contained less junk -- I expected something with two zeroes, but only had, like, twenty SPAM mails or so. I imagine I sometimes receive that much within a day.
The difference with SCO is that Corel has had a positive attitude towards linux. They contributed a lot to the wine project while developing Corel Draw and WP for Linux. I would be very surprised if they turn around 180 degrees all of a sudden.
Wasn't Caldera the Linux company that bought the original UNIX code while we all cheered and expected it to finally become Free Software?
I'm talking out of my own memory here, but this IS what I remember of it.
The need to write in style (b iu) on the Web is already demonstrated by Slashdot. Luckily we're most techies here, so you can sell HTML as a "logical way" of biu-ing.
:-)
For the latter, there's not much need for a web-based gallery/ selling system if it's not on the web, eh?
Thing is, HTML widgets were created when the need for this wasn't present. Nowadays every GUI toolkit enables programmers and users to write in style to certain extents. People expect it for Web maintenance systems. Ordering of objects (e.g. of pages) is also something that keeps popping up. (Admitted, there's also no single way to do this in GUI toolkits) The lack of controls we have makes these things hard to do in a user-friendly way.
Heh - thanks, and sorry I touched you personally there.
You're right to say that e.g. Israel may well be a far more dangerous place than e.g. the US, but what I was trying to say is that while everyone realizes this for Israel, the danger with the US may be that nobody sees the danger with the US. That is, it is seen as a completely civilized country, even though it may also have its edges. And it's these edges that I was trying to get a straight view on.
I guess Skylarov is an exception, but he's also an example of the problem (if I see this well): Adobe didn't like hime for what he did abroad (the cracking tool), so they just waited for him to come to America and cross the thin red DMCA line there (the lecture). Which is something the next low-profile American CS professor would probably never ever get busted for.
And yeah, I guess I'd be perfectly safe with my profile, but my moral principles are sometimes easily tickled, so I guess that's why I wrote the post in the first place. (I'm one of those people who think personal boycotts have a reason for existance outside of the 60's, which may sometimes have a very limiting impact on your viewpoints: "can't do this, can't do that".)