The fact that they mandate the use of Python is one of my primary objections.
What, is something preventing you from writing a tool in $OTHER_LANGUAGE and announcing it on freshmeat? So it can't be entered in a Python competition. Oh well.
How is MP3 in any way evil? (outside of the RIAA compound of course).
Because the MP3 format is patented. Thankfully, the patent holders have allowed anyone to distribute an MP3 decoder (as long as they don't charge for it), but there are license fees (and probably other hassles) involved with writing encoders. This is why there are no MP3 encoders in Debian... technically any free, open-source one is (I belive) illegal.
I don't find anything appropriate/ironic/whatever in anti-music industry sentiment being expressed in an MP3; MP3 is just a format. Copyright infringment is up to the user. What I find *really* ironic is that they recorded RMS complaining about patents and then used a patented algorithm to turn it into something downloadable; whatever program they used could *not* have (legally!) respected their freedom.
While we're discussing myths.. how about we debunk another one: Open Source is superior to everything by virtue alone. Listening to RMS, slashdotters, and ESR's writings would have you believe OSS will revolutionize the world and proprietary software is/all/ bad.
Not really. It's better because it's free. That's all I really care about. Non-free is evil. If a bunch of people want to come champion Linux on technical grounds, go ahead and shoot them down (not that i'm particularly convinced web plugins or the windows/mac desktop is any kind of elegant technological acheivment, but that's beside the point). I just don't care if Linux is "better" in that sense or not.
I suggest reading what RMS has to say again. It's not "GNU is technologically better." it's "GNU is free." That's it. and that's also what matters to me.
Let's take another myth: that we're somehow superior to windows or macheads. Comeon people, this is dogmatic and fanatical in the extreme. We have an OS that does *some* things better than the others. But NO OS is superior on the basis of it's name alone.
No, that's not it. If you run free software, you're not "better", you're simply on the moral high ground. I'm all for being dogmatic about that.
Slashdot Mirror
Von Neumann, but yes.
OK, so who's thinking "COMSTOCK"? ;-)
I didn't make it actually. But like I said everything you need to know to do it is in the source and the image.
Here's a nice demo:
http://www.pp.htv.fi/hsivon e1/css-test/bitmapstyle.html
View the source. Check out the PNG in the GIMP. very cool.
"an intelligent Slashdot filter".
;-)
Hmm. If an ad filter filters ads, what does a Slashdot filter do?
The fact that they mandate the use of Python is one of my primary objections.
What, is something preventing you from writing a tool in $OTHER_LANGUAGE and announcing it on freshmeat? So it can't be entered in a Python competition. Oh well.
How is MP3 in any way evil? (outside of the RIAA compound of course).
Because the MP3 format is patented. Thankfully, the patent holders have allowed anyone to distribute an MP3 decoder (as long as they don't charge for it), but there are license fees (and probably other hassles) involved with writing encoders. This is why there are no MP3 encoders in Debian... technically any free, open-source one is (I belive) illegal.
I don't find anything appropriate/ironic/whatever in anti-music industry sentiment being expressed in an MP3; MP3 is just a format. Copyright infringment is up to the user. What I find *really* ironic is that they recorded RMS complaining about patents and then used a patented algorithm to turn it into something downloadable; whatever program they used could *not* have (legally!) respected their freedom.
While we're discussing myths.. how about we debunk another one: Open Source is superior to everything by virtue alone. Listening to RMS, slashdotters, and ESR's writings would have you believe OSS will revolutionize the world and proprietary software is /all/ bad.
Not really. It's better because it's free. That's all I really care about. Non-free is evil. If a bunch of people want to come champion Linux on technical grounds, go ahead and shoot them down (not that i'm particularly convinced web plugins or the windows/mac desktop is any kind of elegant technological acheivment, but that's beside the point). I just don't care if Linux is "better" in that sense or not.
I suggest reading what RMS has to say again. It's not "GNU is technologically better." it's "GNU is free." That's it. and that's also what matters to me.
Let's take another myth: that we're somehow superior to windows or macheads. Comeon people, this is dogmatic and fanatical in the extreme. We have an OS that does *some* things better than the others. But NO OS is superior on the basis of it's name alone.
No, that's not it. If you run free software, you're not "better", you're simply on the moral high ground. I'm all for being dogmatic about that.
Native system widgets CANNOT BE USED FOR A WHOLE LOT OF LAYOUT due to W3C specifications.
Um, neither can HTML. *ahem*