Deregulation has nothing to do with this, and laws of physics have everything to do with this. Even under dereg, grid stability and then market management is the responsibility of a third party quasi-governmental agency called either an ISO or a Power Pool. Of them, PJM is considered by many to be the best...
FERC Order 2000 changed everything. FERC mandates that smaller power pools should merge together and be like PJM. This trend has already been under way and for that reason you see things like new financial markets for congestion, better rules for management of transmission capacity, etc. For these reasons the kinds of games that can be played have been drastically reduced, although in any market some gaming always happens.
Everyone needs an SMTP mail client of some kind. Now that OE is dead, we're bound to see the rise of 3rd party mail programs given that Outlook is expensive and not everyone likes hotmail.
I'm gonna wear diamonds like rhinestones.
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The Diamond Age
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Screw the 1970's, in the new millenium, we'll all have the real mccoy.
1) As far as MONEY goes, then, it seems to me that projects should be able to support themselves. Regardless of whether or not we drop 100M on any dictator (or, actually, billions these days), versus none for inner city schools, that money usually comes from some form of free enterprise. So, if the product is worthy, then one should be able to charge money for it.
How many good projects are failing for lack of money? These are projects that can and should be products. I think even RMS has said that one can charge for a distribution, so long as the distribution remains modifiable and open downstream. The guys should charge $50 for a binary distribution. People would --pay-- for it.
2 2/b) Scheme versus LISP versus C++ versus something else. I like the idea of using new languages for products. I've written one myself for the time series database space and I'm going to be adding a lot to it over time. Systems like this should be written in HLLS that are in turn written in some performance language, but I would question the choice of Scheme or LISP. I argue, to deaf ears at work, that using a new kind of language tailored to the real problems at hand is ultimately the best approach.
I have a wife but no kids, who, like yours prefers me to be less on the computer than off, but I agree with the validity of the idea but I disagree with their approach, based upon my "extensive" research of a Slashdot thread!
I think the authors should have devised their own language specific to accounting and written their own u/i on top of it. That would have been a lot simpler. Hmmm, if I used my time series profiles as accounts and had a means of using them hierarchically, --I-- could write a better money management engine using the time series engine I already have.
Without the notion of investor capital and publicly traded ownership of corporations, our lives would be radically different.
Maybe sell it and raise money to work on it ...
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GnuCash - A Call For Help
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I don't mean for this to be a troll, but, really, Linux is never going to have applications for end users under the open source model if the applications being developed are not glamorous in some way.
GNUCash... what's that? What's sexy about accounting?
You aren't going to get people to work on that unless you pay them, or, they want to write their own business rules engine. So, either finish GNUCash on your own, or, someone else will step up to the plate with a better, more elegant model.
Throwing more bodies at a problem is a Microsoft approach and the whole idea behind oss is that hopefully someone will step up to the plate with that really radical idea that simplifies everything and gets you from 250k lines of crap to maybe 50-100k lines of sane code.
One of these days I'll learn to not post when I haven't had a beer...
The big thing in favor of the GPL is that it is a private contract between two parties and anything the court does to disrupt that relationship is going to invite precendence for all of business, for any contract.
It's possible that a challenge to the GPL might get thrown out because it is a binding contract... or maybe they will decide that the GPL is not a contract for some reason. But, if they do, those reasons would have to be very narrowly defined or they would invalidate other contracts. Given that the propensity of the courts these days is to favor privacy of contracts and commercial relationships, I would be shocked if the courts actually ruled against GPL.
A bit of background. In the US system, the judiciary branch is charged with "interpreting the laws". Largely, if Congress drolls out some stupid bill, as they usually do, it falls on the courts to try and put a "sane spin on it." For this reason, the courts are not elected positions, they are appointed, and, the people once appointed are in for life. Usually the ruling political party puts in people of its philosophy, but there have been some famous goofs - like Bush - Souter.
Usually a court case does not make it to the supreme court unless it has some sort of constitutional issue associated with it. How a GPL case might make it to the SCOTUS is interesting indeed. Would it fall under free speech? Would it fall under Commerce? Would it fall under Intellectual Property? Would it fall under the bill of rights about the exclusion of business...
They talked quite in depth about how the hardware worked for the Atari and Commodore 64 computers and Vic 20, etc. They published short games for each, which was obviously the source code and people used to TYPE THEM IN.
And if that wasn't enough, there was INSIDE ATARI, which went through the sound, video and joystick hardware all in depth, how to hook the vertical blanking interrupt, how to change the color registers on a horizontal blank interrupt. There was all sorts of stuff that one could do.
But then VGA came out and PCs were better, so f--- it.
It's one thing to swap songs ala Kazaa, just because the music industry is so arrogant that they just beg to be f--- with. But doing the same thing to writers and comic authors? At some point, authors should get something for their work.
If you put everyone's personal information on the internet, you would probably find that after a while, most people wouldn't even really give a hoot about it.
How bad is a bankruptcy or something else, anyway?
The only people privacy rules protect are the rich.
Medical records should be kept private. But, financial records, why not make them all public?
By saying that it is the duty of the individual to find their way, that it is ok for someone to go and milk the legal system to disrupt people's lives, for NOTHING, genuinly baffles me.
Am I deeply angered? You bet I am. I'm not even that in favor of Open Source but I know a lie when I see one and McBride is screwing an entire marketplace to cash in and lie. I think your faith that reason will prevail is absurd as I have no such illusion that it will.
Reason only prevails unless it has a checkbook with it.
The other thing is that I don't think he deserves to go to prison. He's not doing anything illegal. It is not illegal to lie and it would be absurd to have a government try to enforce truth because it so subjective. But in this case McBride is the price we pay for the system that we have. You can't legislate malicious greedy liars out of any system, and, so, all that is left is to note that if something bad happened to them, you'd cheer.
It was wrong to wish ill on his kids, but, if SCO sued you and your kids college fund got whacked for it, then, how would you feel about McBride's kids? Or would you just suck it up and accept that his stolen profits would put his kids into the White House while yours flipped burgers.
Ok, let's measure things objectively. If SCO wins, then hundreds of thousands, if not millions of consultants that bet on Open Source will lose their livelihoods and possibly their homes and their marriages and their dreams for their children.
Is it wrong to wish death on McBride? Yes it is. But, by his very act, he's wishing the destruction of many, many, Linux consultants and businesses. He's not offering a better solution, he's not doing anything of any value other than to pervert the legal system.
Maybe your family's good fortune is not worth the life of a complete stranger who is out to see your career destroyed so he can cash in on a lie, but mine is not. I don't believe that anyone should kill him or anything like that, or even engage in violence against him, but I think that, given the social damage this man is causing, all on a lie, then, well, it is entirely reasonable, logical, and rational to cheer any ill that befalls him.
They want to play hardball, bring it on. I'll be happy to send laughter card if one of his kids got killed. Anyone that lies as much as they does not deserve to be considered human.
Most of the posters against supercomputers argue relentlessly based on "economies of scale". Aren't we geeks? Isn't there aesthetic value in building a really specialized machine simply to smoke through a small set of problems? Why the blind love for more and more Intel or AMD processors?
I mean, if sameness were the thing that mattered, then, why not just give up the whole Linux crusade and accept Windows and all Microsoft standards for everything? I'm sure we could get distributed processing software working on Windows, for scientific applications. Windows has sockets, it has languages, one could build a networking computing application on top of it...
Let's remember that it's not just necessarily about solutions, its about acceptance of alternative approaches and a desire to unmask the unknown.
Meanwhile, 500 billion light years away, another universe is big banging its way in our own universe but past the edge of our own big bang. Aliens from that universe will never see us and we will never see them, even though we are arranged in a convenient diagnonal, if viewed 20 trillion light years from above.
Some sort of weird thing is going on in Northern New Jersey. Not sure what it is, but evidently there was some kind of an explosion and communications with a town was lost...
Slashdot Mirror
Deregulation has nothing to do with this, and laws of physics have everything to do with this. Even under dereg, grid stability and then market management is the responsibility of a third party quasi-governmental agency called either an ISO or a Power Pool. Of them, PJM is considered by many to be the best...
FERC Order 2000 changed everything. FERC mandates that smaller power pools should merge together and be like PJM. This trend has already been under way and for that reason you see things like new financial markets for congestion, better rules for management of transmission capacity, etc. For these reasons the kinds of games that can be played have been drastically reduced, although in any market some gaming always happens.
Well now that's exactly what China needs!
Everyone needs an SMTP mail client of some kind. Now that OE is dead, we're bound to see the rise of 3rd party mail programs given that Outlook is expensive and not everyone likes hotmail.
Screw the 1970's, in the new millenium, we'll all have the real mccoy.
Sorry DeBeers.
Beer comment was afterthought, not sig :-)
1) As far as MONEY goes, then, it seems to me that projects should be able to support themselves. Regardless of whether or not we drop 100M on any dictator (or, actually, billions these days), versus none for inner city schools, that money usually comes from some form of free enterprise. So, if the product is worthy, then one should be able to charge money for it.
How many good projects are failing for lack of money? These are projects that can and should be products. I think even RMS has said that one can charge for a distribution, so long as the distribution remains modifiable and open downstream. The guys should charge $50 for a binary distribution. People would --pay-- for it.
2 2/b) Scheme versus LISP versus C++ versus something else. I like the idea of using new languages for products. I've written one myself for the time series database space and I'm going to be adding a lot to it over time. Systems like this should be written in HLLS that are in turn written in some performance language, but I would question the choice of Scheme or LISP. I argue, to deaf ears at work, that using a new kind of language tailored to the real problems at hand is ultimately the best approach.
I have a wife but no kids, who, like yours prefers me to be less on the computer than off, but I agree with the validity of the idea but I disagree with their approach, based upon my "extensive" research of a Slashdot thread!
I think the authors should have devised their own language specific to accounting and written their own u/i on top of it. That would have been a lot simpler. Hmmm, if I used my time series profiles as accounts and had a means of using them hierarchically, --I-- could write a better money management engine using the time series engine I already have.
But that's a bit out into 2004.
Without the notion of investor capital and publicly traded ownership of corporations, our lives would be radically different.
I don't mean for this to be a troll, but, really, Linux is never going to have applications for end users under the open source model if the applications being developed are not glamorous in some way.
GNUCash... what's that? What's sexy about accounting?
You aren't going to get people to work on that unless you pay them, or, they want to write their own business rules engine. So, either finish GNUCash on your own, or, someone else will step up to the plate with a better, more elegant model.
Throwing more bodies at a problem is a Microsoft approach and the whole idea behind oss is that hopefully someone will step up to the plate with that really radical idea that simplifies everything and gets you from 250k lines of crap to maybe 50-100k lines of sane code.
One of these days I'll learn to not post when I haven't had a beer...
The big thing in favor of the GPL is that it is a private contract between two parties and anything the court does to disrupt that relationship is going to invite precendence for all of business, for any contract.
It's possible that a challenge to the GPL might get thrown out because it is a binding contract... or maybe they will decide that the GPL is not a contract for some reason. But, if they do, those reasons would have to be very narrowly defined or they would invalidate other contracts. Given that the propensity of the courts these days is to favor privacy of contracts and commercial relationships, I would be shocked if the courts actually ruled against GPL.
A bit of background. In the US system, the judiciary branch is charged with "interpreting the laws". Largely, if Congress drolls out some stupid bill, as they usually do, it falls on the courts to try and put a "sane spin on it." For this reason, the courts are not elected positions, they are appointed, and, the people once appointed are in for life. Usually the ruling political party puts in people of its philosophy, but there have been some famous goofs - like Bush - Souter.
Usually a court case does not make it to the supreme court unless it has some sort of constitutional issue associated with it. How a GPL case might make it to the SCOTUS is interesting indeed. Would it fall under free speech? Would it fall under Commerce? Would it fall under Intellectual Property? Would it fall under the bill of rights about the exclusion of business...
Oh those old Compute Magazines were GREAT.
They talked quite in depth about how the hardware worked for the Atari and Commodore 64 computers and Vic 20, etc. They published short games for each, which was obviously the source code and people used to TYPE THEM IN.
And if that wasn't enough, there was INSIDE ATARI, which went through the sound, video and joystick hardware all in depth, how to hook the vertical blanking interrupt, how to change the color registers on a horizontal blank interrupt. There was all sorts of stuff that one could do.
But then VGA came out and PCs were better, so f--- it.
It's one thing to swap songs ala Kazaa, just because the music industry is so arrogant that they just beg to be f--- with. But doing the same thing to writers and comic authors? At some point, authors should get something for their work.
Our users would not seem so stupid if we had better software. A lot of software is particularly bad.
If you put everyone's personal information on the internet, you would probably find that after a while, most people wouldn't even really give a hoot about it.
How bad is a bankruptcy or something else, anyway?
The only people privacy rules protect are the rich.
Medical records should be kept private. But, financial records, why not make them all public?
Plus, excessive food is the number one cause of death. Eliminate food for big savings for our corporate masters!
By saying that it is the duty of the individual to find their way, that it is ok for someone to go and milk the legal system to disrupt people's lives, for NOTHING, genuinly baffles me.
Am I deeply angered? You bet I am. I'm not even that in favor of Open Source but I know a lie when I see one and McBride is screwing an entire marketplace to cash in and lie. I think your faith that reason will prevail is absurd as I have no such illusion that it will.
Reason only prevails unless it has a checkbook with it.
The other thing is that I don't think he deserves to go to prison. He's not doing anything illegal. It is not illegal to lie and it would be absurd to have a government try to enforce truth because it so subjective. But in this case McBride is the price we pay for the system that we have. You can't legislate malicious greedy liars out of any system, and, so, all that is left is to note that if something bad happened to them, you'd cheer.
It was wrong to wish ill on his kids, but, if SCO sued you and your kids college fund got whacked for it, then, how would you feel about McBride's kids? Or would you just suck it up and accept that his stolen profits would put his kids into the White House while yours flipped burgers.
Ok, let's measure things objectively. If SCO wins, then hundreds of thousands, if not millions of consultants that bet on Open Source will lose their livelihoods and possibly their homes and their marriages and their dreams for their children.
Is it wrong to wish death on McBride? Yes it is. But, by his very act, he's wishing the destruction of many, many, Linux consultants and businesses. He's not offering a better solution, he's not doing anything of any value other than to pervert the legal system.
Maybe your family's good fortune is not worth the life of a complete stranger who is out to see your career destroyed so he can cash in on a lie, but mine is not. I don't believe that anyone should kill him or anything like that, or even engage in violence against him, but I think that, given the social damage this man is causing, all on a lie, then, well, it is entirely reasonable, logical, and rational to cheer any ill that befalls him.
They want to play hardball, bring it on. I'll be happy to send laughter card if one of his kids got killed. Anyone that lies as much as they does not deserve to be considered human.
Cheer for McBride's death, I say.
I inadvertantly left some source code on my web site, and SCO stole it. I can't show it to you but even the comments are the same.
Therefor, everyone out there using Linux owes me $750.
Ohmygosh, Microsoft shocks analysts with a brazen new approach to marketing: "fact based approach", as if honesty was just one of many options...
Most of the posters against supercomputers argue relentlessly based on "economies of scale". Aren't we geeks? Isn't there aesthetic value in building a really specialized machine simply to smoke through a small set of problems? Why the blind love for more and more Intel or AMD processors?
I mean, if sameness were the thing that mattered, then, why not just give up the whole Linux crusade and accept Windows and all Microsoft standards for everything? I'm sure we could get distributed processing software working on Windows, for scientific applications. Windows has sockets, it has languages, one could build a networking computing application on top of it...
Let's remember that it's not just necessarily about solutions, its about acceptance of alternative approaches and a desire to unmask the unknown.
For most people, that's all they need. Should have something to steal music and upload pictures. but, that's about it. The other stuff is admin stuff.
Like, what made the big bang happen?
God?
Oh, who made God?
SuperGod?
Who made SuperGod?
SuperDuperGod?
Who made SuperDuperGod?
Meanwhile, 500 billion light years away, another universe is big banging its way in our own universe but past the edge of our own big bang. Aliens from that universe will never see us and we will never see them, even though we are arranged in a convenient diagnonal, if viewed 20 trillion light years from above.
I was listening to a song that told me to blow stuff up and fight the powers, and so, I quit buying music.
Sorry.
I don't think they think Windows is free, because a) they know Bill Gates is very rich, and b) because Windows upgrades in store are rather expensive.
Some sort of weird thing is going on in Northern New Jersey. Not sure what it is, but evidently there was some kind of an explosion and communications with a town was lost...
Keep that dirty old Senator out of your hard drive! He might be trying to look at those naked pictures you took for your wife!