I have a RIVA TNT 16mb agp2x card. Are they saying that with that kind of card, my 200MHz AMD K6 wouldn't be able to play it? Not to mention my 96MB of SDRAM? If not, than their new quicktime is crap.
This is like the time when the U.S. tried to change to metric. Yeah, it would be nicer if we all used a system like this, but the change would just be way too difficult to make. Besides, Grenwich (sp?) Mean Time is a standard time already, and if everyone used it the same result would be achieved. And why do these people go and make a new standard time meridian right through their company? That reeks of a "The Universe revolves around us" attitude. There is already a prime meridian and an international date line, so just base it on one of those. And "swatch beats"????? Give me a break. That is not a name for a unit of time that will catch on. Seconds are nice because they just seem to be about right for counting off seconds without the aid of a clock. They just seem to have the right natural rhythm (perhaps part of the reason they were invented in the first place?) You need some kind of standard time unit that is similiar to a second (perhaps a little quicker)
One of their "swatch beats" is almost a minute and a half! When you think "beat" you dont think minute and a half. It's not really a 'beat' if they are separated by more than, say, 5 secs max.
Reminds me of those mission statements Scott Adams is so fond of.
BTW, did anyone hear about the time he billed himself as a consultant for writing mission statements (at Iomega I think?) When the session was done, the statement was a mass of unintelligible crap. Then, to "Bring the session into focus" as he put it, he drew a big picture of Dilbert and they knew they'd been had.
Theoretically, like the guy said in Cryptonomicon, you don't need an OS at all. But then each application would have to worry about low level problems like disk and memory access, which vary from machine to machine. This is the whole problem the operating system solved - duplication of effort! The OS configures itself for that machine, and then presents a platform that stuff can run on without worrying about what hardware you have. Modifying your OS is a great freedom to have, but by releasing software which requires a certain modification to the end user's OS, you are taking that very freedom away from him.
What sounds better? Linux or GNU/Linux? Obviously Linux sounds better. Isn't that kind of important? Idealism aside, the way a name sounds is not something nobody cares about. Linux is a good name. It just sounds like an operating system. Give enough credit to enough people and organizations and you will find yourself with a name so long that it is shortened to a completely new acronym. Linux is a good, uncomplicated name that rolls easily off the tongue and doesn't sound weird when you throw it into a conversation. And whether Stallman likes it or not, that will be a major reason why people are going to keep calling it Linux.
He'll get his credit. People aren't just going to forget that the FSF contributed a bunch of code, so do we really have to complicate the name?
The only people that would work on this open-sourced windows would be people that are stuck with windows anyway and have a job to do. And it would be a difficult project to get up to speed on. Jwz mentioned that people took a couple weeks to get familiar with the mozilla codebase before they could really work on it - well this is windows we're talking about!!! Multiply all the mozilla numbers by at least 20!
Of course, this would all only matter if they do it just how the letter requested. If they don't, they might find themselves puzzling over why nobody is rushing to help them out.
I liked the letter. It respected the rights of ms while at the same time reminding them what it really means to call their project an open source one.
I liked him. Here was a guy that, until recently, was very much electable. He was Clinton's vp for two terms, and came out so free of scandals that the worst anybody could come up with was to say he's boring. Yeah, there was a thing about fund raising but that never amounted to much.
He is also smart - when he is in his element. Obviously technology is not his element. The one contribution he made to technology was to hype it, which was in some was good for us and bad in others.
I liked all these facts because I agreed with him on just about every non-tech issue - especially the environment, and I still do. The first thing that irked me about him was his anti encryption stance, but that mattered little to me because honestly - how many politicians are pro strong encryption? Not many.
I know he's a politician. They all are, except for Ventura. But I think generally good things will happen if he is elected - he would have largely the same administration as Clinton has now. These are the people that deserve the credit people give Clinton when they say he "has horrible character, but does a good job." And for me, the environment is a major concern, and so I like him for all his great work on that front.
So it is especially painful to watch him self destruct like this. Obviously, he has sensed, too late, that he has alienated a large portion of the technology world, is trying to make up ground, and is going about it the wrong way. He seems to think buzzwords like "open source" will win us over. How ironic, when words like that cause fighting amongst ourselves. And anyway, a political web site is just not the greatest candidate for an open source project. You really wouldnt want your compeditors to use it for self promotion or to rip on you (open source would imply that they could do just that.)
Gore, if you want tech people to like you, dont try to be one of them. You aren't, and nobody will hold it against you that you aren't. But we would love it if you would see the light on issues like strong encryption export restrictions and freedom of speech online, and fight for us on those fronts.
I liked him. Here was a guy that, until recently, was very much electable. He was Clinton's vp for two terms, and came out so free of scandals that the worst anybody could come up with was to say he's boring. Yeah, there was a thing about fund raising but that never amounted to much. He is also smart - when he is in his element. Obviously technology is not his element. The one contribution he made to technology was to hype it, which was in some was good for us and bad in others. I liked all these facts because I agreed with him on just about every non-tech issue - especially the environment, and I still do. The first thing that irked me about him was his anti encryption stance, but that mattered little to me because honestly - how many politicians are pro strong encryption? Not many. I know he's a politician. They all are, except for Ventura. But I think generally good things will happen if he is elected - he would have largely the same administration as Clinton has now. These are the people that deserve the credit people give Clinton when they say he "has horrible character, but does a good job." And for me, the environment is a major concern, and so I like him for all his great work on that front. So it is especially painful to watch him self destruct like this. Obviously, he has sensed, too late, that he has alienated a large portion of the technology world, is trying to make up ground, and is going about it the wrong way. He seems to think buzzwords like "open source" will win us over. How ironic, when words like that cause fighting amongst ourselves. And anyway, a political web site is just not the greatest candidate for an open source project. You really wouldnt want your compeditors to use it for self promotion or to rip on you (open source would imply that they could do just that.) Gore, if you want tech people to like you, dont try to be one of them. You aren't, and nobody will hold it against you that you aren't. But we would love it if you would see the light on issues like strong encryption export restrictions and freedom of speech online, and fight for us on those fronts.
That lawyer page ruled - had me laughing from the beginning to the end. What is with the fishdot page. Absolutely nothing to do with fish anywhere (or any other coherent topic for that matter) Just some guy that liked the/. layout so much that he just HAD to use it for something? By the way, isn't that page shredder just an early version of the netscape layout engine?:P
He seems to have an excellent grasp of the mindset and behavior of new Linux users.
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think about it- it uses mpeg compression, which is not exactly a secret algorithm, and computers have DVD players nowadays. How hard would it be, once you get the key to a DIVX disk one time, to write a program that stores the keys and provides them when the player wants them?
..because you are attempting to pick apart little parts of a post that is so obviously BS that you needent have wasted your time. I think anyone that saw it ought to see that.
It's hard to understand WHY people in this community are so bent on getting corporations to embrace oss, if you forgot that some of use don't want to live in a world with: -hardware released with proprietary windoze-only drivers, and no available specs -NT servers that we can all go to work and pull our hair out over, because that's what the boss bought -near-monopoly in the os market from a certain empire -winmodems
wait, that's where we live right now! Except because of the efforts of people like esr, businesses are moving the other way. Sure, free software will get better regardless, but some of us would like to also use it at WORK. And sooner, rather than later. Ok, so ESR hasn't improved linux *lately* (he did code a lot - more than most of us) but his job now, as he calls it, is important in its own way. So what if he promotes himself? Don't forget that he was instrumental in Netscape's freeing of the code.
And if you, for whatever reason, genuinely don't care whether or not companies embrace linux, please respect the fact that some of us do. Raymond isn't trying to pervert 'the cause', and, though I don't know him, I would guess that his goal is not to boost his ego.
I clicked to that article from some site (I forget which) easily over a year ago. I think it would have been late '97 even, or at least early '98. It was the first time I ever crossed paths with the linux community.
I clicked it because the title looked interesting. Having never heard of linux before, I probably wouldn't have clicked something called "The spirit of the Linux community".
I also ended up 'residing' here on/. after that article caught my interest in Linux and I slowly found my way around this corner of the web. That is truly a great document, if for other reason that it is a very effective recruiter. The word 'hacker' does have considerable esteem attached to it, no matter which interpretation you prefer.
That's nothing. 2.2.2 had some real karma
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so either you are a very determined troll with too much free time, or there are some things you need to be clued in on: -Contributing to the wishlist is, of course, helpful in its own way, but this post reeks of a "Cmon, guys, write this program for me. Here's how I want it done. I would help, but I don't know how, and don't have the time. Well? What's taking you so long?" kind of attitude. -Mozilla is a little late in the development cycle to be talking about piling on new features. In fact, it is in a code freeze right now. The priority is performance and stability. A suggestion: Wait until 5.0 is out the door. Meanwhile, brush up on coding. When it comes out, download and enjoy it. Then, see what suggestions of yours have been implemented. Use it for a while until you have a better idea of what would be good additions for the next version. Send them to the wishlist. Then, get familiar with the codebase, find something you want to see implemented that you can do yourself, and start coding. Good luck!
The announcement said that AOL was starved for engineers, so the Netscape people that got laid off were probably in management/sales/other non-tech jobs.
I can spell - I know that it is spelled 'lose' and I had no alternate meaning in mind. It was just a typo that I overlooked. I'm actually an ok speller, believe it or not. If you want to know my opinion on typos (I understand perfectly if you don't) read a previous post of mine.
ESR, encouraged by the huge attention the original 3 Haloween documents got (of which only one had anything to do with Haloween), has kept that title when talking about things completely unrelated to the leaked MS memos. Now we have two more which are simply childish word fights with Ed Muth's public statements. Is anyone else sick of the 'holy war' with MS this is turning out to be? For one thing, most MS developers are not bad people, they are just at the mercy of marketers and businessmen that put quality low on their list of important things. Forget about them.
If you haven't read this, you are missing out. I know, it's ages old, but it is on of their all time greats. www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
Before the days of career politicians, when the leaders had a more active role in other aspects of society. I guess I just don't even consider him one of their kind, ya know?
these politicians, with their latest batch of jokes about inventing things, effectively admitting that they are useless. They know that none of their kind has ever made such a contribution, and they recognize the absurdity in any statement that says otherwise.
It is most definately NOT a wasted vote to vote third party. Far from it! For one thing, your vote has the same infinitesmal effect no matter who you vote on. But if lots of people go third party, not only is there that chance of winning, but it gets major attention. Ask anyone from Minnesota;-) To quote their new governor, "those wasted votes wasted them (the major parties)"
It is most definately NOT a wasted vote to vote third party. Far from it! For one thing, your vote has the same infinitesmal effect no matter who you vote on. But if lots of people go third party, not only is there that chance of winning, but it gets major attention. Ask anyone from Minnesota;-)
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I have a RIVA TNT 16mb agp2x card. Are they saying that with that kind of card, my 200MHz AMD K6 wouldn't be able to play it? Not to mention my 96MB of SDRAM? If not, than their new quicktime is crap.
This is like the time when the U.S. tried to change to metric. Yeah, it would be nicer if we all used a system like this, but the change would just be way too difficult to make. Besides, Grenwich (sp?) Mean Time is a standard time already, and if everyone used it the same result would be achieved.
And why do these people go and make a new standard time meridian right through their company? That reeks of a "The Universe revolves around us" attitude. There is already a prime meridian and an international date line, so just base it on one of those.
And "swatch beats"????? Give me a break. That is not a name for a unit of time that will catch on. Seconds are nice because they just seem to be about right for counting off seconds without the aid of a clock. They just seem to have the right natural rhythm (perhaps part of the reason they were invented in the first place?) You need some kind of standard time unit that is similiar to a second (perhaps a little quicker)
One of their "swatch beats" is almost a minute and a half! When you think "beat" you dont think minute and a half. It's not really a 'beat' if they are separated by more than, say, 5 secs max.
What the hell is that? If we want a standard time, what is wrong with GMT???
Reminds me of those mission statements Scott Adams is so fond of.
:^)
BTW, did anyone hear about the time he billed himself as a consultant for writing mission statements (at Iomega I think?) When the session was done, the statement was a mass of unintelligible crap. Then, to "Bring the session into focus" as he put it, he drew a big picture of Dilbert and they knew they'd been had.
That was one of the coolest things ever.
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Theoretically, like the guy said in Cryptonomicon, you don't need an OS at all. But then each application would have to worry about low level problems like disk and memory access, which vary from machine to machine. This is the whole problem the operating system solved - duplication of effort! The OS configures itself for that machine, and then presents a platform that stuff can run on without worrying about what hardware you have. Modifying your OS is a great freedom to have, but by releasing software which requires a certain modification to the end user's OS, you are taking that very freedom away from him.
He'll get his credit. People aren't just going to forget that the FSF contributed a bunch of code, so do we really have to complicate the name?
The only people that would work on this open-sourced windows would be people that are stuck with windows anyway and have a job to do. And it would be a difficult project to get up to speed on. Jwz mentioned that people took a couple weeks to get familiar with the mozilla codebase before they could really work on it - well this is windows we're talking about!!! Multiply all the mozilla numbers by at least 20!
:-)
Of course, this would all only matter if they do it just how the letter requested. If they don't, they might find themselves puzzling over why nobody is rushing to help them out.
I liked the letter. It respected the rights of ms while at the same time reminding them what it really means to call their project an open source one.
BTW, at least esr didn't call it Halloween VI
I liked him. Here was a guy that, until recently, was very much electable. He was Clinton's vp for two terms, and came out so free of scandals that the worst anybody could come up with was to say he's boring. Yeah, there was a thing about fund raising but that never amounted to much.
He is also smart - when he is in his element. Obviously technology is not his element. The one contribution he made to technology was to hype it, which was in some was good for us and bad in others.
I liked all these facts because I agreed with him on just about every non-tech issue - especially the environment, and I still do. The first thing that irked me about him was his anti encryption stance, but that mattered little to me because honestly - how many politicians are pro strong encryption? Not many.
I know he's a politician. They all are, except for Ventura. But I think generally good things will happen if he is elected - he would have largely the same administration as Clinton has now. These are the people that deserve the credit people give Clinton when they say he "has horrible character, but does a good job." And for me, the environment is a major concern, and so I like him for all his great work on that front.
So it is especially painful to watch him self destruct like this. Obviously, he has sensed, too late, that he has alienated a large portion of the technology world, is trying to make up ground, and is going about it the wrong way. He seems to think buzzwords like "open source" will win us over. How ironic, when words like that cause fighting amongst ourselves. And anyway, a political web site is just not the greatest candidate for an open source project. You really wouldnt want your compeditors to use it for self promotion or to rip on you (open source would imply that they could do just that.)
Gore, if you want tech people to like you, dont try to be one of them. You aren't, and nobody will hold it against you that you aren't. But we would love it if you would see the light on issues like strong encryption export restrictions and freedom of speech online, and fight for us on those fronts.
I liked him. Here was a guy that, until recently, was very much electable. He was Clinton's vp for two terms, and came out so free of scandals that the worst anybody could come up with was to say he's boring. Yeah, there was a thing about fund raising but that never amounted to much. He is also smart - when he is in his element. Obviously technology is not his element. The one contribution he made to technology was to hype it, which was in some was good for us and bad in others. I liked all these facts because I agreed with him on just about every non-tech issue - especially the environment, and I still do. The first thing that irked me about him was his anti encryption stance, but that mattered little to me because honestly - how many politicians are pro strong encryption? Not many. I know he's a politician. They all are, except for Ventura. But I think generally good things will happen if he is elected - he would have largely the same administration as Clinton has now. These are the people that deserve the credit people give Clinton when they say he "has horrible character, but does a good job." And for me, the environment is a major concern, and so I like him for all his great work on that front. So it is especially painful to watch him self destruct like this. Obviously, he has sensed, too late, that he has alienated a large portion of the technology world, is trying to make up ground, and is going about it the wrong way. He seems to think buzzwords like "open source" will win us over. How ironic, when words like that cause fighting amongst ourselves. And anyway, a political web site is just not the greatest candidate for an open source project. You really wouldnt want your compeditors to use it for self promotion or to rip on you (open source would imply that they could do just that.) Gore, if you want tech people to like you, dont try to be one of them. You aren't, and nobody will hold it against you that you aren't. But we would love it if you would see the light on issues like strong encryption export restrictions and freedom of speech online, and fight for us on those fronts.
That lawyer page ruled - had me laughing from the beginning to the end. What is with the fishdot page. Absolutely nothing to do with fish anywhere (or any other coherent topic for that matter) Just some guy that liked the /. layout so much that he just HAD to use it for something? By the way, isn't that page shredder just an early version of the netscape layout engine? :P
He seems to have an excellent grasp of the mindset and behavior of new Linux users.
think about it- it uses mpeg compression, which is not exactly a secret algorithm, and computers have DVD players nowadays. How hard would it be, once you get the key to a DIVX disk one time, to write a program that stores the keys and provides them when the player wants them?
..because you are attempting to pick apart little parts of a post that is so obviously BS that you needent have wasted your time. I think anyone that saw it ought to see that.
It's hard to understand WHY people in this community are so bent on getting corporations to embrace oss, if you forgot that some of use don't want to live in a world with:
-hardware released with proprietary windoze-only drivers, and no available specs
-NT servers that we can all go to work and pull our hair out over, because that's what the boss bought
-near-monopoly in the os market from a certain empire
-winmodems
wait, that's where we live right now! Except because of the efforts of people like esr, businesses are moving the other way. Sure, free software will get better regardless, but some of us would like to also use it at WORK. And sooner, rather than later. Ok, so ESR hasn't improved linux *lately* (he did code a lot - more than most of us) but his job now, as he calls it, is important in its own way. So what if he promotes himself? Don't forget that he was instrumental in Netscape's freeing of the code.
And if you, for whatever reason, genuinely don't care whether or not companies embrace linux, please respect the fact that some of us do. Raymond isn't trying to pervert 'the cause', and, though I don't know him, I would guess that his goal is not to boost his ego.
Guys, he's one of us.
I clicked to that article from some site (I forget which) easily over a year ago. I think it would have been late '97 even, or at least early '98. It was the first time I ever crossed paths with the linux community.
I clicked it because the title looked interesting. Having never heard of linux before, I probably wouldn't have clicked something called "The spirit of the Linux community".
I also ended up 'residing' here on /. after that article caught my interest in Linux and I slowly found my way around this corner of the web. That is truly a great document, if for other reason that it is a very effective recruiter. The word 'hacker' does have considerable esteem attached to it, no matter which interpretation you prefer.
2.2.2 came out on 2/22
That was like, cool or something.
so either you are a very determined troll with too much free time, or there are some things you need to be clued in on: -Contributing to the wishlist is, of course, helpful in its own way, but this post reeks of a "Cmon, guys, write this program for me. Here's how I want it done. I would help, but I don't know how, and don't have the time. Well? What's taking you so long?" kind of attitude. -Mozilla is a little late in the development cycle to be talking about piling on new features. In fact, it is in a code freeze right now. The priority is performance and stability. A suggestion: Wait until 5.0 is out the door. Meanwhile, brush up on coding. When it comes out, download and enjoy it. Then, see what suggestions of yours have been implemented. Use it for a while until you have a better idea of what would be good additions for the next version. Send them to the wishlist. Then, get familiar with the codebase, find something you want to see implemented that you can do yourself, and start coding. Good luck!
The announcement said that AOL was starved for engineers, so the Netscape people that got laid off were probably in management/sales/other non-tech jobs.
I can spell - I know that it is spelled 'lose' and I had no alternate meaning in mind. It was just a typo that I overlooked. I'm actually an ok speller, believe it or not. If you want to know my opinion on typos (I understand perfectly if you don't) read a previous post of mine.
ESR, encouraged by the huge attention the original 3 Haloween documents got (of which only one had anything to do with Haloween), has kept that title when talking about things completely unrelated to the leaked MS memos. Now we have two more which are simply childish word fights with Ed Muth's public statements. Is anyone else sick of the 'holy war' with MS this is turning out to be? For one thing, most MS developers are not bad people, they are just at the mercy of marketers and businessmen that put quality low on their list of important things. Forget about them.
If you haven't read this, you are missing out. I know, it's ages old, but it is on of their all time greats. www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
Before the days of career politicians, when the leaders had a more active role in other aspects of society. I guess I just don't even consider him one of their kind, ya know?
these politicians, with their latest batch of jokes about inventing things, effectively admitting that they are useless. They know that none of their kind has ever made such a contribution, and they recognize the absurdity in any statement that says otherwise.
Just my $0.0000002
It is most definately NOT a wasted vote to vote third party. Far from it! For one thing, your vote has the same infinitesmal effect no matter who you vote on. But if lots of people go third party, not only is there that chance of winning, but it gets major attention. Ask anyone from Minnesota ;-) To quote their new governor, "those wasted votes wasted them (the major parties)"
It is most definately NOT a wasted vote to vote third party. Far from it! For one thing, your vote has the same infinitesmal effect no matter who you vote on. But if lots of people go third party, not only is there that chance of winning, but it gets major attention. Ask anyone from Minnesota ;-)