Well, I was just pulling quick random examples out for that list..... As far as Katz goes. He does not do this for/.... He does it for his freedom forum website, it just gets copied and pasted over here on/..... He could go off on a story not related to computers and freedom in any way and it would get posted here. It's not meant for/., and if he's not going to work one audience at a time, he shouldn't post here anymore. My thoughts:)
However you say it, there's one big important point missing. Red Hat bashing *IS* a fad. Linux is finishing the first of what will probably be several stages of bandwagon jumping. In the last two years, an enourmous ammount of technically-oriented people have jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Whenever these "surges" take place, many people, generally the type that jump off after using it for a short period of time, declare themselves as experts and throw thier opinions around as if they were the next messiah. This is especially evident in the case of GNOME -vs- KDE, where tempers and passion were high but the meaningful dialouge was amazingly hard to find. I dare say that most of those flamers and trendsetters have moved on to other "K-rad" things:). examples of other Flamable Fads: vi vs emacs "Internet Time" GNOME vs KDE RMS vs ESR Jon Katz bashing (he's meant to be insightful, not a God) most recent joke: Raster vs Red Hat
Face it, Red Hat bashing is a fad. It probably started as meaningful insights from prominent members of the community intended to fix what was broken and improve the not-quite-perfect, but now the sentiments have degraded to the stuff flames are made of. I'd rather spend my time writing code than spewing out meaningless, energy-wasting flame. I'd like to see most of ya'll doing the same.
Mandrake said he does not presently have a job. And as far as most of you should be concerned, raster has said of GNOME-vs-KDE "I wish people would quit fighting and start coding." Quit wasting your breath, people, and get a life. Start making your own stuff, most of this chatter is useless. Find a better way to waste breath:)
Welp, I openly admit the following is theoretical.
The key to fast reboots is to do the "Rapid Resume" type of stuff that IBM PCs used to loadly boast as a feature several years ago. Basicly, on demand, it would write the contents of memeory to a special place on the Hard Drive. Whenever it boots up and goes through POST, it looks to that area, reads in the data to memory, and resumes at the exact spot it was before shutdown, almost instantly.
There's no reason this type of technology couldn't be used in other other way. I would guess that in this case it uses of a card with flashable memory, and saving state where it is right after a boot or right before doing a process that could crash a system...
Weblogs -vs- Web Diary, and the community issue.
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Don't get the two confused. Weblogs (which is really a crappy crappy name, btw) are, more than anything, constantly updated sites with news and links of interest, centered around a topic, maintined by people who know what good information. that pertains to the topic, is. If you took a poll of/. readers, you'd find that a good deal of them depend more on these "weblogs" for computer based news that they need or have an intrest in far more than in most of the mainstream channels of communication, such as magazines, TV, radio, C|Net websites, where "Vanilla" content (edible, but not really rich in taste or geared for people with specific tastes) is the norm. To say that they are really about personal information, that is different. Most of those would be construed as diaries. Very few people have real interest or concern about the details of other peoples lives, not enough to make a "community" around it. though personal info does sometimes hit weblogs, that's not really a major part of content. And like it or not, "communities" do not develop through web sites. Period. They develop through newsgroups, e-mail, internet chat, etc., interactive forums, and other places means by which direct communication AMONG members may take place, many of which are based on or around websites &weblogs. However, websites & weblogs have audiences, as do TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc. Websites and Weblogs deliver information TO an audience, commmunication really isn't AMONG an audince. In that aspect, audience size really does not have a direct bearing on weblogs. There is no requirement where weblogs must interact with their audience. Web forums are really the only place where Web-Anything can have a community. Of course, this just my point of view:)
"We believe..." is just a way Nintendo tries to jump through legal loopholes. "We believe..." I like saying "This is the way it is from our viewpoint, but we don't know enough of the law to say that this is how the world works." I'll resist going into reverse engineering practices and the like. However, I will say that Nintendo game consoles are fairly simple to figure out:). If Nintendo wants to have a part of the American market, it must be willing to co-exist with products that perform or even outperform the same functions.
Xerox Copiers are not illegal. Copiers are used for the sole purpose of creating an exact copy of another peice of paper. You can say that Xerox copier encourage piracy of copyrighted material. However, you can't say that copiers are illegal because of whatever purpose they may be used for. "Possible Intent" has no bearing on the legality of any product......
Neither buisnesses nor the federal government can enforce laws preventing software from being developed or distributed unless it uses code or other software components that were protected under copyright. Like it or not, Nintendo couldn't even prevent another game company from making a nintendo "clone" if it used nothing but unprotected or independently developed resources. This is a competitive marketplace, and Nintendo, like it or not, can't say "You may not develop an emulator for our games", just like they can't say "You may not sell plain-text cheat books about our games" "You may not develop a console that can run our cartidges" or "You may not release games for the nintendo that do not get our seal of approval." If they wish to do that, they can not sell their product in the United States. We have laws and rights that encourage competition, and that is really all snes9x is. Competition. At least Nintendo should take the Microsoft point of view and BUY them out, there's much more honor and legal backing there. Nintendo, emulators are not illegal. Emulation is not illegal either. Distributing copyrighted material is. If you don't get that straight right now, ya'll will probably regret it later. IP lawyers really love this stuff. Bottom line: Only two types of software is illegal. Pirated software and software that illegaly uses copyrighted code. snes9x was neither of those. Saying "Emulators are illegal." is like Betty Crocker saying "Cookbooks that we don't make are illegal." You can not kill a product just because it can or may cut into profits, just like Microsoft can't kill Linux for the same reasons.
Read for the half I forgot to include :)
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I started this post to mainly point out that the "suit", no matter how great they are, are getting a red carpet treatment while the core of what Linux is and who got it there is being completely overshadowed! Really, I'm not wanting to take the wind off of the sails of the big guns, but it would be nice to recognize those developers who have always been behind Linux. If it weren't for them, Linux would not be the great operating system it is. Imagine a comic book or a car convention, where Pepsi had the diggest spot on the floor only because they had tons of money to blow..... And there's Todd McFarlene, sitting in the corner, smashed between the restrooms and the snack bar.
note:more emphasis on Debian, Slashdot, etc!!!!!
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I'm just saying, give credit where credit is due!:)
Sometimes, I wonder why Debian, Slashdot, etc. are even invited to these conventions. Linux is still a "hot" name going around. But I wonder how many people at one of the "big name" booths, take IBM for example, even understand what's going on, what Linux is about, or have even used it for more than a 24 hour time period... I live down near Austin, Texas, where the only Linux-related convention is that thing ZD is going to put on later this summer. Admission is around $500, explaining Open Source software concepts to the suits. Wow. Closed doors and open source. What a combo... I enjoy working with Linux, doing my little projects, working on development software, submitting patches whenever I get time. But, lately (esp in the past year), everyone's been jumping on this bandwagon because it's what's "in". I believe most of the commitments made by the suits lately almost as much as you can believe that most men listen to Brittany Spears because of her musical talents. It's one thing to actually contribute to the movement. It's another thing to set up a front and milk it for all it's worth. Get off the f***ing bandwagon and try pushing it for once.
Well, actually, almost all were around before 98..
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I have a hard time seing how anyone (except those still in high school:P) could believe that. Programming "the same old stuff for 12 years" just doesn't happen. Unless you do nothing but, say, programming forms in visual basic (which hasn't been around _that_ long), every line of code you write is a stepping stone in experience. Programming on that type of project is, more than anything, an excercise in contruction and improvement. Modern technology is faster, but not much more revolutionary, than the technology of several years ago. Technology doesn't completely change every two or three years, it evolves. Probably the worst place to learn about modern technology is in the classroom, because rare ar the schools that stay ahead of the curve. Programming concepts have not changed much decade to decade:), just evolved and improved. Show me a programmer who is better with 3 years of education than one of 12 years experience on "the same old stuff", and I'll show you a burger-flipper at McDonalds who makes more money than the average rocket scientist.....
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Well, I was just pulling quick random examples out for that list..... /. ... He does it for his freedom forum website, it just gets copied and pasted over here on /. .... He could go off on a story not related to computers and freedom in any way and it would get posted here. It's not meant for /., and if he's not going to work one audience at a time, he shouldn't post here anymore. My thoughts :)
As far as Katz goes. He does not do this for
However you say it, there's one big important point missing. :).
Red Hat bashing *IS* a fad.
Linux is finishing the first of what will probably be several stages of bandwagon jumping. In the last two years, an enourmous ammount of technically-oriented people have jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Whenever these "surges" take place, many people, generally the type that jump off after using it for a short period of time, declare themselves as experts and throw thier opinions around as if they were the next messiah. This is especially evident in the case of GNOME -vs- KDE, where tempers and passion were high but the meaningful dialouge was amazingly hard to find. I dare say that most of those flamers and trendsetters have moved on to other "K-rad" things
examples of other Flamable Fads:
vi vs emacs
"Internet Time"
GNOME vs KDE
RMS vs ESR
Jon Katz bashing (he's meant to be insightful, not a God)
most recent joke: Raster vs Red Hat
Face it, Red Hat bashing is a fad. It probably started as meaningful insights from prominent members of the community intended to fix what was broken and improve the not-quite-perfect, but now the sentiments have degraded to the stuff flames are made of.
I'd rather spend my time writing code than spewing out meaningless, energy-wasting flame. I'd like to see most of ya'll doing the same.
sorry, couldn't resist :)
Mandrake said he does not presently have a job. :)
And as far as most of you should be concerned, raster has said of GNOME-vs-KDE
"I wish people would quit fighting and start coding."
Quit wasting your breath, people, and get a life. Start making your own stuff, most of this chatter is useless. Find a better way to waste breath
1) Turn it on.
2) Unplug the power switch cable from the motherboard.
100% safe. That's all it is when dealing with an ATX. The only problem then is if someone phsyically unplugs the power cord.
Welp, I openly admit the following is theoretical.
The key to fast reboots is to do the "Rapid Resume" type of stuff that IBM PCs used to loadly boast as a feature several years ago. Basicly, on demand, it would write the contents of memeory to a special place on the Hard Drive. Whenever it boots up and goes through POST, it looks to that area, reads in the data to memory, and resumes at the exact spot it was before shutdown, almost instantly.
There's no reason this type of technology couldn't be used in other other way. I would guess that in this case it uses of a card with flashable memory, and saving state where it is right after a boot or right before doing a process that could crash a system...
Don't get the two confused. /. readers, you'd find that a good deal of them depend more on these "weblogs" for computer based news that they need or have an intrest in far more than in most of the mainstream channels of communication, such as magazines, TV, radio, C|Net websites, where "Vanilla" content (edible, but not really rich in taste or geared for people with specific tastes) is the norm. :)
Weblogs (which is really a crappy crappy name, btw) are, more than anything, constantly updated sites with news and links of interest, centered around a topic, maintined by people who know what good information. that pertains to the topic, is. If you took a poll of
To say that they are really about personal information, that is different. Most of those would be construed as diaries. Very few people have real interest or concern about the details of other peoples lives, not enough to make a "community" around it. though personal info does sometimes hit weblogs, that's not really a major part of content.
And like it or not, "communities" do not develop through web sites. Period. They develop through newsgroups, e-mail, internet chat, etc., interactive forums, and other places means by which direct communication AMONG members may take place, many of which are based on or around websites &weblogs. However, websites & weblogs have audiences, as do TV stations, newspapers, magazines, etc. Websites and Weblogs deliver information TO an audience, commmunication really isn't AMONG an audince. In that aspect, audience size really does not have a direct bearing on weblogs. There is no requirement where weblogs must interact with their audience.
Web forums are really the only place where Web-Anything can have a community.
Of course, this just my point of view
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"We believe..." is just a way Nintendo tries to jump through legal loopholes. "We believe..." I like saying "This is the way it is from our viewpoint, but we don't know enough of the law to say that this is how the world works." :). If Nintendo wants to have a part of the American market, it must be willing to co-exist with products that perform or even outperform the same functions.
I'll resist going into reverse engineering practices and the like. However, I will say that Nintendo game consoles are fairly simple to figure out
Xerox Copiers are not illegal.
Copiers are used for the sole purpose of creating an exact copy of another peice of paper.
You can say that Xerox copier encourage piracy of copyrighted material.
However, you can't say that copiers are illegal because of whatever purpose they may be used for. "Possible Intent" has no bearing on the legality of any product......
Neither buisnesses nor the federal government can enforce laws preventing software from being developed or distributed unless it uses code or other software components that were protected under copyright. Like it or not, Nintendo couldn't even prevent another game company from making a nintendo "clone" if it used nothing but unprotected or independently developed resources. This is a competitive marketplace, and Nintendo, like it or not, can't say "You may not develop an emulator for our games", just like they can't say "You may not sell plain-text cheat books about our games" "You may not develop a console that can run our cartidges" or "You may not release games for the nintendo that do not get our seal of approval." If they wish to do that, they can not sell their product in the United States. We have laws and rights that encourage competition, and that is really all snes9x is. Competition. At least Nintendo should take the Microsoft point of view and BUY them out, there's much more honor and legal backing there.
Nintendo, emulators are not illegal. Emulation is not illegal either. Distributing copyrighted material is. If you don't get that straight right now, ya'll will probably regret it later. IP lawyers really love this stuff. Bottom line: Only two types of software is illegal. Pirated software and software that illegaly uses copyrighted code. snes9x was neither of those.
Saying "Emulators are illegal." is like Betty Crocker saying "Cookbooks that we don't make are illegal." You can not kill a product just because it can or may cut into profits, just like Microsoft can't kill Linux for the same reasons.
I started this post to mainly point out that the "suit", no matter how great they are, are getting a red carpet treatment while the core of what Linux is and who got it there is being completely overshadowed! Really, I'm not wanting to take the wind off of the sails of the big guns, but it would be nice to recognize those developers who have always been behind Linux. If it weren't for them, Linux would not be the great operating system it is.
Imagine a comic book or a car convention, where Pepsi had the diggest spot on the floor only because they had tons of money to blow..... And there's Todd McFarlene, sitting in the corner, smashed between the restrooms and the snack bar.
I'm just saying, give credit where credit is due! :)
Sometimes, I wonder why Debian, Slashdot, etc. are even invited to these conventions.
Linux is still a "hot" name going around. But I wonder how many people at one of the "big name" booths, take IBM for example, even understand what's going on, what Linux is about, or have even used it for more than a 24 hour time period...
I live down near Austin, Texas, where the only Linux-related convention is that thing ZD is going to put on later this summer. Admission is around $500, explaining Open Source software concepts to the suits.
Wow. Closed doors and open source. What a combo...
I enjoy working with Linux, doing my little projects, working on development software, submitting patches whenever I get time. But, lately (esp in the past year), everyone's been jumping on this bandwagon because it's what's "in". I believe most of the commitments made by the suits lately almost as much as you can believe that most men listen to Brittany Spears because of her musical talents.
It's one thing to actually contribute to the movement. It's another thing to set up a front and milk it for all it's worth.
Get off the f***ing bandwagon and try pushing it for once.
You just weren't here to watch them develop....
I have a hard time seing how anyone (except those still in high school :P) could believe that. Programming "the same old stuff for 12 years" just doesn't happen. Unless you do nothing but, say, programming forms in visual basic (which hasn't been around _that_ long), every line of code you write is a stepping stone in experience. Programming on that type of project is, more than anything, an excercise in contruction and improvement. Modern technology is faster, but not much more revolutionary, than the technology of several years ago. Technology doesn't completely change every two or three years, it evolves. Probably the worst place to learn about modern technology is in the classroom, because rare ar the schools that stay ahead of the curve. Programming concepts have not changed much decade to decade :), just evolved and improved.
Show me a programmer who is better with 3 years of education than one of 12 years experience on "the same old stuff", and I'll show you a burger-flipper at McDonalds who makes more money than the average rocket scientist.....
All it takes is a couple of nutzo investors :)
Nuff said :)
Mandrake announced it several months ago :), I just don't think anyone really thought it was /. newsworthy.....
Go here :)
See, I toldya so
I can't be the only one who thinks this looks like "Croc" off of the Playstation. Short, stumpy, green, the bandana, 3d.... it's all there. Hrmm......
The Matrix that is floating around is a pre-release version, raw edit. Unmixed audio, so on. But still cool.... :)
And is there any "slashdota virus"? No, I don't think so ;)
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