Also, you can install is to memory stick and use it everywhere.
IMHO Eclipse is great for Java, good for C++ and OK for PHP. But the main reason I use it is its UI consistency. Once you learn to use it it doesn't matter in what language you working on, so using it in a new language has almost zero learning curve.
Also it makes it easy to work on different projects in different languages at the same time - a blessing with applications that use both python and C++ code for example.
That's creepy. I see it as far easier to implement concepts like that in Israel where threats are much more likely or frequent.
I'm afraid that since 9/11 every government feels obligated to frighten the public into giving up their basic freedoms
It seems the real solution is to make it clear that this situation is unacceptable.
That's apparently one of the shortcomings of democracy in the modern age. Every day you see some restrictive format getting iso approved or some law enacted that takes freedoms from citizens, and you hear people raving about it in sites like/.. But the average layman don't even grasp how these things restrict his/her freedoms, so it doesn't have any electoral power to oppose to...
This country has a horrible sickness, and no politician is going to cure it. I'm about as normal a guy as you'd ever meet... but something has to happen to wake us the F* up, and I afraid it'd have to be something terrible.
I'm afraid that this recent trend is not only exclusive to the US...
I remember when in Israel the Knesset(Israeli parliament) voted for the Internet censorship at the ISP level, people where enraged and started to make comparisons with Soviet Russia.
The truth was that ISP blocking P2P traffic and governments pressuring ISP to revel IP addresses and other identifying information has been a worldwide trend for some time.
Recently Israel tried to move to biometric identification of the entire population... Again people were enraged and again the authorities claimed it is becoming the norm in the Western world.
I think that since technology advances this trend will continue, since terrorist organizations and others will threaten democracies around the world. I just hope that proper legal chains will be put on those(e-surveillance) methods to prevent using those methods for political reasons.
Also, I hope that we'll never cross the line from Defensive Democracy to democracy without it's basic principles
I remember reading a comics once from the time of the first Intifada. The characters in the comics where living in bomb shelters checking everyone who knocks on their door for explosive belt and traveling through the streets with Uzis. Then the whole scene turned out to be a dream of some terrorist who dreamed that they accomplished their goal...
Gee, now I see why people are complaining about the Karma System...
If that were the case, the GPL would have linking/combining provisions to other free software licenses, rather than being entirely hostile to other open-source
GPL is a license, a type of legal document. Last time I checked documents weren't hostile unless they were written by Mr. Crowley and made you insane by reading them...
You my friend, should do some reading of Richerd Stallman's essays. The whole point of free software is that information should be free and when you code something you'll want your code to be reused again an again - multiplying it's usefulness many times fold.
If you really believe in FOSS than you should decline this offer as it completely opposed to the FOSS ideals, unless you are starving and have no other choice other then accepting the offer.
If I were you I would think whether I'll be contended by the interesting intellectual challenges and the material gain - even if it makes me just a hired(and even clever) hand. Personally I'll want to have more ownership of what I code. And ownership by the entire community is much more in your hands than ownership of some shareholders.
I'm not saying, be idealistic and refuse any offer to be paid for your work. Just consider if this sacrifice is worth the gains...
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Also, you can install is to memory stick and use it everywhere.
IMHO Eclipse is great for Java, good for C++ and OK for PHP. But the main reason I use it is its UI consistency. Once you learn to use it it doesn't matter in what language you working on, so using it in a new language has almost zero learning curve.
Also it makes it easy to work on different projects in different languages at the same time - a blessing with applications that use both python and C++ code for example.
That's creepy. I see it as far easier to implement concepts like that in Israel where threats are much more likely or frequent.
I'm afraid that since 9/11 every government feels obligated to frighten the public into giving up their basic freedoms
It seems the real solution is to make it clear that this situation is unacceptable.
That's apparently one of the shortcomings of democracy in the modern age. Every day you see some restrictive format getting iso approved or some law enacted that takes freedoms from citizens, and you hear people raving about it in sites like /.. But the average layman don't even grasp how these things restrict his/her freedoms, so it doesn't have any electoral power to oppose to...
This country has a horrible sickness, and no politician is going to cure it. I'm about as normal a guy as you'd ever meet... but something has to happen to wake us the F* up, and I afraid it'd have to be something terrible.
I'm afraid that this recent trend is not only exclusive to the US...
I remember when in Israel the Knesset(Israeli parliament) voted for the Internet censorship at the ISP level, people where enraged and started to make comparisons with Soviet Russia.
The truth was that ISP blocking P2P traffic and governments pressuring ISP to revel IP addresses and other identifying information has been a worldwide trend for some time.
Recently Israel tried to move to biometric identification of the entire population... Again people were enraged and again the authorities claimed it is becoming the norm in the Western world.
I think that since technology advances this trend will continue, since terrorist organizations and others will threaten democracies around the world. I just hope that proper legal chains will be put on those(e-surveillance) methods to prevent using those methods for political reasons.
Also, I hope that we'll never cross the line from Defensive Democracy to democracy without it's basic principles
I remember reading a comics once from the time of the first Intifada. The characters in the comics where living in bomb shelters checking everyone who knocks on their door for explosive belt and traveling through the streets with Uzis. Then the whole scene turned out to be a dream of some terrorist who dreamed that they accomplished their goal...
If that were the case, the GPL would have linking/combining provisions to other free software licenses, rather than being entirely hostile to other open-source
GPL is a license, a type of legal document. Last time I checked documents weren't hostile unless they were written by Mr. Crowley and made you insane by reading them...
You my friend, should do some reading of Richerd Stallman's essays. The whole point of free software is that information should be free and when you code something you'll want your code to be reused again an again - multiplying it's usefulness many times fold.
If you really believe in FOSS than you should decline this offer as it completely opposed to the FOSS ideals, unless you are starving and have no other choice other then accepting the offer.
If I were you I would think whether I'll be contended by the interesting intellectual challenges and the material gain - even if it makes me just a hired(and even clever) hand. Personally I'll want to have more ownership of what I code. And ownership by the entire community is much more in your hands than ownership of some shareholders.
I'm not saying, be idealistic and refuse any offer to be paid for your work. Just consider if this sacrifice is worth the gains...