Many people either complain that this is eroding their right to say what they want about a company or its products. Other complain and say, no, you have the right to say whatever you want, and the company has the right to track you down and tell you yyou are wrong, or in case of libel or such things, sue you. The thing is, they don't have to sue you. You can not just say even legal things. Because you won't have a economic situaition stable enought to get into a court-case. or you are just a normal human, afaraid of what they may be able to sue you for. To not be trackable is much easier than having to defend your (constitutionally protected) speech in court. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Not to have problems with trademarks, such a new DNS database should not have the same chaos of TLDs as today. My proposal is, such a system should have a smaller set of TLDS, with subdomains and subsubdomains, for different categories of domains. Like *.linux.free.soft.comp for all linux-software sites, *.rel.phil.cult for religious sites, and so on. A company can not, in most countries, claim any right to their trademarked name when it is used in a totally different usage domain, like Apple can not claim any right to the Macintosh name of fruits.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
We do invent new looks all the time, but no new feels. You have a huge set of different window managers and themes, each providing the same feautures. We are stuck in the desktop- and tools- and windows-methafors. You must start a tool (program) to edit your picture. You have folders, either as a tree, or as windows with icons that can be clicked to open new windows. You have windows which can overlay each other, but their placement is largely up to the user. There are ver few new things coming up. And the fresh air is old. Take a look at the The ROX Desktop for example. A new and cool idea. Which is old. I think the majure problem is that people are spo used to how it works now, that they can not come up with something totally different any more.
And to opose myself, there are some new ideas, like the PalOS, where you don't have files, and in particular, you don't have "save". You modify your text/picture/whatever directly. Nothing is "in RAM" and must be "saved". But that is one of the few new things I've seen...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Becoming hacker to just to make money makes no geek. If girls where only in it for the money, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near any of them. Thankfully, not all of them are (Even though, the most of traditional men-jobs that woman gets into are high-paid, non-techie). Becoming a geek is to love the tech. To live with it. For it. And don't care about money, altought, money won't probably be any problem... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If they knew they where to kill an astronaut, and did it willingfull, that would have been murder. If they just had killed him/her/them accidentally (Oh, cool sys. Wonder what this command does?), that would have been manslaughter. At least that's the distinction between the two in Sweden... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
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God, root, what's the difference? We are near to become God. Except for one thing. God is good, or at least so it is said. And we are by no means good. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Could someone with a windows/DOS computer please extract the PDF out of that self-extracting EXE-file? I would like to read their chit (The article referenced consisted of 100% pure marketing speak) to judge it, but I only have access to computers running Linux. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
There is one thing that all the GUI libraries for UNIX (Gtk, Qt, Xt, Fltk, etc) do better than the windows GUI for the coder - all space allocation for widgets (Sizing and positioning) is done automatically. In windows, you can only place widgets (buttons, text inputs etc) on coordinates. If you want resizable windows, you must code the resizing/moving of the widgets in the window by yourself (At least, so it was in VB. And I can't imagine why they would have it like that in VB if it's not because of the underlaying GUI tookit). This is one reason programming GUI apps under UNIX is much easier, even if you don't use a GUI-drawing tool (Like GLADE).
All together, what makes UNIX more apreciating as a programmer is that a lot of things are abstracted away. You have device files to manipulate devices. Thus, you don't have to learn how each device or device API works. They are all the same. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Where are you???? I was (until this spring) studying CS in sweden. We was first introduced to LISP. Then ADA. Concurently, we had a course in discrete math. After that, we had some algorithm courses and a course in formal languages (proving syntactic properties), and one in programming theory (proving semantics). Learning how to program in VC++?? Give me a break! --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I for sure hope that they where _seriously_ damaged, so that the world will not be an even unsafer place with even worser weapons! --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Oh, for those who don't know: It's the winning entry in a competition held at IBM. The competition was about the slowest search algorithm. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If you wants to regulate selling of drugs; regulate the physical transportation of drugs. You can not download mariuana through your modem! If you say you want to regulate drugs, and shut down websites, you are in fact lying - you are regulating speech.
If we don't stand up together soon, the governments will stand up over us. And we'l never have the chance again. I wonder what would happen if a group declared the independence of the Internet Republic, and themselves as its government (And of course created some voting website or whatever to vote for the next internet government). I wonder how the US and the EU and all the other countries would react? --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If someone violates GPL, the license is void. Since it i s void, normal copyright applies. Which says you are not allowed to copy and distribute. Thus, a programmer is in his/her right to sue a company violating the GPL license of his/her code for copyright infrigement. Perheaps someone should set up a fund to help those programmers get layers. Such a fund would most probably peven have profit! The big companies allways sue us private persons for violation of their copyright or licenses. We should do the same when they violates our copyright and our licenses! --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
In all other directions in this industry, scalability is an honored word. But not enought in user intarface design. A user interface most important task is to scale with the user. It should be good both for a novice a power user and a hacker. It should provide easy and intuitive ways of doing things, while not slowing down the power user by having him to retype a slightly modified command hundreds of time (Or move the mouse nearly the same way hundreds of times). Simplicity is another important factor. Hundreds of bells and wistles won't help anyone, if he/she can't find the forrest for all the trees. Graphical junk is something most of the "new" UI's for X has - for example, most of the enlightenment themes doesn't provide any new functionality to the user interface, just a new look, with even more lines, shades, 3d-borders and so on. Very few window managers (vm2, the pie-menu extended fvwm2 and one more that I have forgotten the name of) have really new concepts. Orthogonality. If something can be performed on one screen object, it should be possible to perform on (nearly) all of them. Every program should use standard interfaces to each other (E.g. sending guile scheme expressions to each other) for interaction. In addition, they should have good interactions between command-line and GUI. All graphical programs should read their stdin anyway, and interpret command they get from there, and do tasks based on them, possibly affecting the GUI data. Finally, a set of important concepts:
*Drag'n'drop. *Scripting *Simplicity *Intergation beteen programs *Embedding of document inside each other (pictures in text) *Speed of usage *Speed of learning *Orthogonality *Minimalism
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
What constitutes a webmaster? Any person writing a webpage? How would they admminister that huge amount of requests to register? Oh, wai, france have minitel, they don't use the internet. There would be only a minor impact. Probably this is to reduce the number of people using internet in favor of minitel.
I will move to france the 1st of june to work for MandrakeSoft. Hm. I'm a bit scared of all these strange laws about crypto and now perheaps web publishing...
Anyway, if I use any other protocol (Say ftp) instaed of http, or any other format than html, am I still a webmaster? --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
No, it is not linked to tragedy. Tragedy is an important component of being genious. I don't know any details of this special case - but study all the authors of good books, and they have lived misserable lifes, with very bad contacts to friends and persons of the right sex. Examples I can recall directly are Kafka and Karin Boye. You need to be misserable in order to have the energy to concentrate on some small detail of life and not on having a baby, going out with friends and so on... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Way back then, there was an entire computer system type that run LISP as its machine language. They had an entire LISP OS, and even a windowing system. Everything written in LISP. History repeats... Soon, all our programs will be scriptable with guile...
As with Pugo - he's a real freak (I know him personally)... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The large companies does the same as was done in the former soviet union. Except saying it's for the sake of the people. And you call your country a free country? --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Whill this be a real PC, or just like the WinCE-machines? I.e., will it be an x86 device with normal hardware, just like any portable x86 machine? That dictates how hard it will be to port Linux to it. If it is a full-featured machine w/ MMU, I don't see any reason not to port Linux to it. SO, then, the only thing missing is handwriting support in Gtk and Qt... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
A thief is someone that does something illegal. You get sued if you are one. The question is not if it is right or wrong to be one, but if you are one if you are copying music.
Music, like computer programs, have a zero production cost. All of the cost is for "R&D".
Music should be free. As should software. It is just strange that the scene of free music is not as big as the one for free programs. Bu the reason may be it's easier to become really rich on music. For computer programs, you have to create your own company and work hard... And no one is promizing new hackers large contracts...
We shouldn't break the law. We should change it to reflect our beliefs of right and wrong. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If such a "hacker-version" is to be produced, it would be apreciable if that version had:
a) A non-twisted IDE-contact (Easy to fix)
b) An ethernet interface
The last one would certainly be an incitament for people to by that version, not the current one, if they where to use it with Linux. --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
There are two basic rights that are requered for a democracy: The right to free speach, and the right to private speach. Without those, a democracy is just a hidden dictatorchip worshipping democracy.
Why is encryption regulated as atomic weapons?
Why is encryption of communications unlawfull in france? --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The ruling only says that source is speach. Thus, the source to the virus is legal. It is legal to study virus sources, to protect you frem them, and to learn. Compiling it and spreading it to someone's computer, however, is illegal, as it should be. To me, the only problem with this ruling may be that I may (but probably will never) write a program directly bit-for-bit by punching it into punch-cards, or switching micro-switches... --The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
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Many people either complain that this is eroding their right to say what they want about a company or its products. Other complain and say, no, you have the right to say whatever you want, and the company has the right to track you down and tell you yyou are wrong, or in case of libel or such things, sue you. The thing is, they don't have to sue you. You can not just say even legal things. Because you won't have a economic situaition stable enought to get into a court-case. or you are just a normal human, afaraid of what they may be able to sue you for. To not be trackable is much easier than having to defend your (constitutionally protected) speech in court.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Not to have problems with trademarks, such a new DNS database should not have the same chaos of TLDs as today. My proposal is, such a system should have a smaller set of TLDS, with subdomains and subsubdomains, for different categories of domains. Like *.linux.free.soft.comp for all linux-software sites, *.rel.phil.cult for religious sites, and so on. A company can not, in most countries, claim any right to their trademarked name when it is used in a totally different usage domain, like Apple can not claim any right to the Macintosh name of fruits.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
We do invent new looks all the time, but no new feels. You have a huge set of different window managers and themes, each providing the same feautures.
We are stuck in the desktop- and tools- and windows-methafors. You must start a tool (program) to edit your picture. You have folders, either as a tree, or as windows with icons that can be clicked to open new windows. You have windows which can overlay each other, but their placement is largely up to the user.
There are ver few new things coming up. And the fresh air is old. Take a look at the The ROX Desktop for example. A new and cool idea. Which is old.
I think the majure problem is that people are spo used to how it works now, that they can not come up with something totally different any more.
And to opose myself, there are some new ideas, like the PalOS, where you don't have files, and in particular, you don't have "save". You modify your text/picture/whatever directly. Nothing is "in RAM" and must be "saved". But that is one of the few new things I've seen...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Ever heard of Atari, TRS80, Sinclair, Mac, Amiga, CBM, etc?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Becoming hacker to just to make money makes no geek. If girls where only in it for the money, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near any of them. Thankfully, not all of them are (Even though, the most of traditional men-jobs that woman gets into are high-paid, non-techie). Becoming a geek is to love the tech. To live with it. For it. And don't care about money, altought, money won't probably be any problem...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If they knew they where to kill an astronaut, and did it willingfull, that would have been murder. If they just had killed him/her/them accidentally (Oh, cool sys. Wonder what this command does?), that would have been manslaughter. At least that's the distinction between the two in Sweden...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
God, root, what's the difference?
We are near to become God. Except for one thing. God is good, or at least so it is said. And we are by no means good.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Could someone with a windows/DOS computer please extract the PDF out of that self-extracting EXE-file? I would like to read their chit (The article referenced consisted of 100% pure marketing speak) to judge it, but I only have access to computers running Linux.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
There is one thing that all the GUI libraries for UNIX (Gtk, Qt, Xt, Fltk, etc) do better than the windows GUI for the coder - all space allocation for widgets (Sizing and positioning) is done automatically. In windows, you can only place widgets (buttons, text inputs etc) on coordinates. If you want resizable windows, you must code the resizing/moving of the widgets in the window by yourself (At least, so it was in VB. And I can't imagine why they would have it like that in VB if it's not because of the underlaying GUI tookit). This is one reason programming GUI apps under UNIX is much easier, even if you don't use a GUI-drawing tool (Like GLADE).
All together, what makes UNIX more apreciating as a programmer is that a lot of things are abstracted away. You have device files to manipulate devices. Thus, you don't have to learn how each device or device API works. They are all the same.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Where are you????
I was (until this spring) studying CS in sweden. We was first introduced to LISP. Then ADA. Concurently, we had a course in discrete math. After that, we had some algorithm courses and a course in formal languages (proving syntactic properties), and one in programming theory (proving semantics). Learning how to program in VC++?? Give me a break!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
How much are you USians gonna take until the revolution comes?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I for sure hope that they where _seriously_ damaged, so that the world will not be an even unsafer place with even worser weapons!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
I don't see random sort anywhere in the list?
Oh, for those who don't know: It's the winning entry in a competition held at IBM. The competition was about the slowest search algorithm.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If you wants to regulate selling of drugs; regulate the physical transportation of drugs. You can not download mariuana through your modem! If you say you want to regulate drugs, and shut down websites, you are in fact lying - you are regulating speech.
If we don't stand up together soon, the governments will stand up over us. And we'l never have the chance again. I wonder what would happen if a group declared the independence of the Internet Republic, and themselves as its government (And of course created some voting website or whatever to vote for the next internet government). I wonder how the US and the EU and all the other countries would react?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If someone violates GPL, the license is void. Since it i s void, normal copyright applies. Which says you are not allowed to copy and distribute. Thus, a programmer is in his/her right to sue a company violating the GPL license of his/her code for copyright infrigement. Perheaps someone should set up a fund to help those programmers get layers. Such a fund would most probably peven have profit! The big companies allways sue us private persons for violation of their copyright or licenses. We should do the same when they violates our copyright and our licenses!
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
In all other directions in this industry, scalability is an honored word. But not enought in user intarface design. A user interface most important task is to scale with the user. It should be good both for a novice a power user and a hacker. It should provide easy and intuitive ways of doing things, while not slowing down the power user by having him to retype a slightly modified command hundreds of time (Or move the mouse nearly the same way hundreds of times).
Simplicity is another important factor. Hundreds of bells and wistles won't help anyone, if he/she can't find the forrest for all the trees.
Graphical junk is something most of the "new" UI's for X has - for example, most of the enlightenment themes doesn't provide any new functionality to the user interface, just a new look, with even more lines, shades, 3d-borders and so on. Very few window managers (vm2, the pie-menu extended fvwm2 and one more that I have forgotten the name of) have really new concepts.
Orthogonality. If something can be performed on one screen object, it should be possible to perform on (nearly) all of them.
Every program should use standard interfaces to each other (E.g. sending guile scheme expressions to each other) for interaction. In addition, they should have good interactions between command-line and GUI. All graphical programs should read their stdin anyway, and interpret command they get from there, and do tasks based on them, possibly affecting the GUI data.
Finally, a set of important concepts:
*Drag'n'drop.
*Scripting
*Simplicity
*Intergation beteen programs
*Embedding of document inside each other (pictures in text)
*Speed of usage
*Speed of learning
*Orthogonality
*Minimalism
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
What constitutes a webmaster? Any person writing a webpage? How would they admminister that huge amount of requests to register? Oh, wai, france have minitel, they don't use the internet. There would be only a minor impact. Probably this is to reduce the number of people using internet in favor of minitel.
I will move to france the 1st of june to work for MandrakeSoft. Hm. I'm a bit scared of all these strange laws about crypto and now perheaps web publishing...
Anyway, if I use any other protocol (Say ftp) instaed of http, or any other format than html, am I still a webmaster?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
No, it is not linked to tragedy. Tragedy is an important component of being genious. I don't know any details of this special case - but study all the authors of good books, and they have lived misserable lifes, with very bad contacts to friends and persons of the right sex. Examples I can recall directly are Kafka and Karin Boye. You need to be misserable in order to have the energy to concentrate on some small detail of life and not on having a baby, going out with friends and so on...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Way back then, there was an entire computer system type that run LISP as its machine language. They had an entire LISP OS, and even a windowing system. Everything written in LISP. History repeats... Soon, all our programs will be scriptable with guile...
As with Pugo - he's a real freak (I know him personally)...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The large companies does the same as was done in the former soviet union. Except saying it's for the sake of the people. And you call your country a free country?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
Whill this be a real PC, or just like the WinCE-machines? I.e., will it be an x86 device with normal hardware, just like any portable x86 machine?
That dictates how hard it will be to port Linux to it. If it is a full-featured machine w/ MMU, I don't see any reason not to port Linux to it. SO, then, the only thing missing is handwriting support in Gtk and Qt...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
A thief is someone that does something illegal. You get sued if you are one. The question is not if it is right or wrong to be one, but if you are one if you are copying music.
Music, like computer programs, have a zero production cost. All of the cost is for "R&D".
Music should be free. As should software. It is just strange that the scene of free music is not as big as the one for free programs. Bu the reason may be it's easier to become really rich on music. For computer programs, you have to create your own company and work hard... And no one is promizing new hackers large contracts...
We shouldn't break the law. We should change it to reflect our beliefs of right and wrong.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
If such a "hacker-version" is to be produced, it would be apreciable if that version had:
a) A non-twisted IDE-contact (Easy to fix)
b) An ethernet interface
The last one would certainly be an incitament for people to by that version, not the current one, if they where to use it with Linux.
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
There are two basic rights that are requered for a democracy: The right to free speach, and the right to private speach. Without those, a democracy is just a hidden dictatorchip worshipping democracy.
Why is encryption regulated as atomic weapons?
Why is encryption of communications unlawfull in france?
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.
The ruling only says that source is speach. Thus, the source to the virus is legal. It is legal to study virus sources, to protect you frem them, and to learn. Compiling it and spreading it to someone's computer, however, is illegal, as it should be. To me, the only problem with this ruling may be that I may (but probably will never) write a program directly bit-for-bit by punching it into punch-cards, or switching micro-switches...
--The knowledge that you are an idiot, is what distinguishes you from one.