Speeking as someone who droped out half way threw a BA, I would say Yes it is. Those first 2 or 3 jobs will be much easer once you have that university time under your belt. Also I found some of the Stuff I learned in classes (Both CS and Physics) has been very useful over the years.
Speeking as someone who droped out half way threw a BA, I would say Yes it is. Those first 2 or 3 jobs will be much easer once you have that university time under your belt. Also I found some of the Stuff I learned in classes (Both CS and Physics) has been very useful over the years.
The way I see it there are a lot of people pushing Linux for a Lot of different reasons, Linus wants to play with code. RMS et al. want software to be free. ESR et al. want better software. Ralph Nader wants to get rid of the MS hedgemony. Tim O'Reilly wants to sell books. Red Hat et al want to sell support and services.
etc.
I think Linux is big enough to hold all of us. And I think we all can agree that making Linux better will help all of us.
If someone out there has an axe to grind with Nader hey, its a free country. But I wish they would at least read CatB or something first.
Well maybe not. I have no idea where segfault is bassed but UF is based in BC Canada. While US laws protect things like this (See Faldwell vs Flynt) I have no idea where Canadian law stands.
It seems that Novell and Apple and others are slowly moving closer to open source. Sticking a foot in the water. Maybe with a friendly push they will decide to Go fully open source in the not to distant future. But they don't want to leed with their best cards. Plus they don't want to scare the big customers off.
Anyhow Good first step Novell, I hope you are thinking about Step 2.
Socalism, (Not Comunism) has been sucessfull in a few places. Norway for one. Or so I understand it. Ofcourse Norway is a Democratic country. And the Israeli Kibutz system didn't do to badly. Ofcourse these are very different examples.
I could be wrong, but I thought ESR was in favor of the GPL, just not for the same reason as RMS.
Does this remind anyone else of that period in the middle ages when there were 2 popes and they both excomunicated each other from time to time. --Zachary Kessin
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I think you could say that while RMS did not invent the concept of "Free Software" He formalized it. If you read some of the stuff he wrote about the AI lab in the 70's he was reacting to already free software becoming non-free when he started the FSF. So it must have been around.
The Formalizing of free software with the GPL etc is very important. --Zachary Kessin
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Yes but Real Scientists know that they have to communicate what they have done with others if they want to continue to do it. Despite what some people here think Packaging is important. As I have said before free software that no one uses does not help anyone. --Zachary Kessin
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Without the Freedom the software will suck, which is one of the major reasons we want free software, so we can improve it when we want/need to.
If the software is not good no one will use it. Free software that sits on a shelf unused is not helping anyone, free software that people use to get things done is.
Its not Good Software VS Freedom its Good software AND Freedom. --Zachary Kessin
Not to hard, this would be a direct decendent of the laws that cover ships and airplanes. Those laws go back centries.
I Imagine there will be a flag painted on the side of the thing, and that country will govern it. It will probably Norway, Denmark or Liberia (Normal maritime flags of convience). --Zachary Kessin
I dont think so, AMD et al are chewing into Intel's market share enough that in 2-3 years Intel will not have a monopoly. --Zachary Kessin
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RMS in some ways needs to get a life. Just saying its a Freedom/Liberties issue is not going to win the day. For those of us in the *REAL WORLD* we have things we have to get done. Applications that need to be written etc. And while I would rather use free software to do it, I will use whatever I need to to get the job done.
Just being free will not convince people to use things. Being better AND free will. But you have to have a better product first.
Ascii is portable, So long as you only want to do US english (NO £ sign, dont you know) The 8 bit ISO charsets are much nicer, BTW does anyone know where I can get some nice ISO-8859-8 charsets? (Hebrew)
When I'm looking for something Yahoo is almost always the first place I go. Most of the Time when I look on Yahoo I find what I want. What more could you ask for. --Zachary Kessin
I have a bike computer on my bike, 7 functions, 2 buttons. And you know anything more complex would be bad. At 20-30 MPH down major city roads you just *CANT* have the distraction. I'm much to busy not getting hit by a bus. --Zachary Kessin
Lets face it the major hardware thing that Corel had was Linux based. So if HCC wanted it it meens that they wanted to buy into Linux. In specific this may be good or not, but in general it is good. It means that people are putting more faith in Linux from a point of view of buying companies etc. --Zachary Kessin
I think Mickey Mouse probably falls under the relm of a Trademark which does not expire as long as you keep using it. Now the film "Steamboat Willy" may be about to become Public Domain --Zachary Kessin
Ok it is funny, but considering what the NSA does and why, I would have made the exact same choice. There is no real need for a "Furby" to be in the NSA buildings, and some chance however small that it could cause damage. So why risk it. Remember this is a *TOP SECRET* facility. --Zachary Kessin
Transmeta is not hype or Vaporware. It is a company that has not said what it is doing, but because they have Linus Et Al working there everyone is speculating like mad.
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Speeking as someone who droped out half way threw a BA, I would say Yes it is. Those first 2 or 3 jobs will be much easer once you have that university time under your belt. Also I found some of the Stuff I learned in classes (Both CS and Physics) has been very useful over the years.
Speeking as someone who droped out half way threw a BA, I would say Yes it is. Those first 2 or 3 jobs will be much easer once you have that university time under your belt. Also I found some of the Stuff I learned in classes (Both CS and Physics) has been very useful over the years.
The way I see it there are a lot of people pushing Linux for a Lot of different reasons,
Linus wants to play with code.
RMS et al. want software to be free.
ESR et al. want better software.
Ralph Nader wants to get rid of the MS hedgemony.
Tim O'Reilly wants to sell books.
Red Hat et al want to sell support and services.
etc.
I think Linux is big enough to hold all of us. And I think we all can agree that making Linux better will help all of us.
If someone out there has an axe to grind with Nader hey, its a free country. But I wish they would at least read CatB or something first.
Editors are a religous thing. But if you want to learn to use emacs. Try the O'Reilly book. It is very good.
I personaly love emacs, but will admit it is very hard to learn to use.
Well maybe not. I have no idea where segfault is bassed but UF is based in BC Canada. While US laws protect things like this (See Faldwell vs Flynt) I have no idea where Canadian law stands.
It seems that Novell and Apple and others are slowly moving closer to open source. Sticking a foot in the water. Maybe with a friendly push they will decide to Go fully open source in the not to distant future. But they don't want to leed with their best cards. Plus they don't want to scare the big customers off.
Anyhow Good first step Novell, I hope you are thinking about Step 2.
Socalism, (Not Comunism) has been sucessfull in a few places. Norway for one. Or so I understand it. Ofcourse Norway is a Democratic country. And the Israeli Kibutz system didn't do to badly. Ofcourse these are very different examples.
I could be wrong, but I thought ESR was in favor of the GPL, just not for the same reason as RMS.
Does this remind anyone else of that period in the middle ages when there were 2 popes and they both excomunicated each other from time to time.
--Zachary Kessin
I think you could say that while RMS did not invent the concept of "Free Software" He formalized it. If you read some of the stuff he wrote about the AI lab in the 70's he was reacting to already free software becoming non-free when he started the FSF. So it must have been around.
The Formalizing of free software with the GPL etc is very important.
--Zachary Kessin
Yes but Real Scientists know that they have to communicate what they have done with others if they want to continue to do it. Despite what some people here think Packaging is important. As I have said before free software that no one uses does not help anyone.
--Zachary Kessin
Without the Freedom the software will suck, which is one of the major reasons we want free software, so we can improve it when we want/need to.
If the software is not good no one will use it. Free software that sits on a shelf unused is not helping anyone, free software that people use to get things done is.
Its not Good Software VS Freedom its Good software AND Freedom.
--Zachary Kessin
Not to hard, this would be a direct decendent of the laws that cover ships and airplanes. Those laws go back centries.
I Imagine there will be a flag painted on the side of the thing, and that country will govern it. It will probably Norway, Denmark or Liberia (Normal maritime flags of convience).
--Zachary Kessin
I dont think so, AMD et al are chewing into Intel's market share enough that in 2-3 years Intel will not have a monopoly.
--Zachary Kessin
RMS in some ways needs to get a life. Just saying its a Freedom/Liberties issue is not going to win the day. For those of us in the *REAL WORLD* we have things we have to get done. Applications that need to be written etc. And while I would rather use free software to do it, I will use whatever I need to to get the job done.
Just being free will not convince people to use things. Being better AND free will. But you have to have a better product first.
--Zachary Kessin
Ascii is portable, So long as you only want to do US english (NO £ sign, dont you know) The 8 bit ISO charsets are much nicer, BTW does anyone know where I can get some nice ISO-8859-8 charsets?
(Hebrew)
--Zachary Kessin
Long wait.
--Zachary Kessin
But the Plaural form of Forum is FORA
--Zachary Kessin
When I'm looking for something Yahoo is almost always the first place I go. Most of the Time when I look on Yahoo I find what I want. What more could you ask for.
--Zachary Kessin
I think I will forward it to some non techie friends, it will explain to them why I do some
things that I do.
--Zachary Kessin
I have a bike computer on my bike, 7 functions, 2 buttons. And you know anything more complex would be bad. At 20-30 MPH down major city roads you just *CANT* have the distraction. I'm much to busy not getting hit by a bus.
--Zachary Kessin
Lets face it the major hardware thing that Corel had was Linux based. So if HCC wanted it it meens that they wanted to buy into Linux. In specific this may be good or not, but in general it is good. It means that people are putting more faith in Linux from a point of view of buying companies etc.
--Zachary Kessin
I think Mickey Mouse probably falls under the relm of a Trademark which does not expire as long as you keep using it. Now the film "Steamboat Willy" may be about to become Public Domain
--Zachary Kessin
Is them do a free for development use and pay for deployment. And of course pay for support. Maybe a 6 month break for startups or something.
Seems sensable to me.
--Zachary Kessin
Ok it is funny, but considering what the NSA does and why, I would have made the exact same choice. There is no real need for a "Furby" to be in the NSA buildings, and some chance however small that it could cause damage. So why risk it. Remember this is a *TOP SECRET* facility.
--Zachary Kessin
Transmeta is not hype or Vaporware. It is a company that has not said what it is doing, but because they have Linus Et Al working there everyone is speculating like mad.
--Zachary Kessin