Imagine is MS Word's menu would be 100% different from KOffice, which in turn would be 100% different from WordPerfect and so on? If the "Save" option would be under "File" in one app, but under "Edit" in another one and under "Help" in another one.
Imagine it? You obviously weren't using word processors back in the eighties, when things were exactly like this. Save varied from things like
+k - g, - transfer - file, and depending on what word processor/text editor you used.
Big thanks to Apple there. It was Apple mandating a common look and feel, and especially common controls on all applications developed for the Macintosh that started the whole standardisation of user interface push.
The GPL is really not designed for Pure Software Companies. It's not really designed for software companies at all. It's designed for software using businesses. If an average medium to large business took the money they spend every year or two on Microsoft Office, and instead allocated it to paying the wages of programmers working on OpenOffice, KOffice, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc, then they'd be able to get the features they need included, while benefiting from the features that other users find critical.
The CS course I did (several years ago)included a unit on CPU logic design, as well as assembler.
I think it really gives you a good understanding when you get to know how the CPU actually processes the code. Of course, CPU complexity has increased so much over the intervening years, that my limited understanding is far from the whole truth, but I still find it useful.
Think about it for a minute here. Obviously, you can't just remove patent protection without having sdome kind of alternative. For example, give pharmaceutical companies a tax rebate for all funds spent on research. Suddenly, they have a great reason to research, but no reason to keep it a secret. They can spend their extra cash making their products more convenient, better tasting, whatever, in an attempt to improve their market share. Medical research could leap ahead with all the free flow of information.
All you have to do is find some way to make research spending reduce costs rather than increase them. Currently, that is provided by patent protection.
There are certainly companies making money on pharmaceuticals that are no longer patent protected, and they continue to spend money researching them. Look at paracetamol. They keep coming up with improvements to the shape and size, obviously spending money in the process.
The key concept is the storage engine driving the groupware server - all of the messages and data need to be stored somewhere.
I've been a Notes Admin since v3.3 or so, and I have to say that I think Tom has hit the nail on the head with this point. One of Notes/Domino's strongest features is its excellent database structure, and the replication technology. The Notes Client and the Domino server share the same database engine, so moving a particular application from a locally stored version to a server for general use can be done by simply copying the file.
It's user interface is possibly its worst feature, so hopefully we can ignore that.
I'm no DB geek by any definition, but has anyone thinking about this considered what/how the database ought to work? Is it possible to
implement a solution built on top of MySQL or Postgres, or something else that might scale well?
Can either of these do replication/data synching between servers? Is there any OS DB that does? That what should be used. Combine with standard email, LDAP, something like SteelBlue, or other ColdFusion-like system, and you've got most of the stuff you need.
What we need from a groupware project is for all these types of elements to be tied together, while still allowing the individual elements to be upgraded individually and even replaced with alternates.
That's what I'd like to see, anyway. A real open source replacement for Notes, combining the best of everything, for everyone.
Unfortunately, Lotus seem to be very short-sighted in this regard.
Yes, they have Domino for Linux, but at the same time, they have dropped all but Windows versions of the Notes client. Now web-enabled deatabases can be run from any java-capable browser, but for designing and administering your apps, you need a Windows box.
Mind you, Notes is a pretty kludgy client program anyway, with a lot of user-unfriendly features. It suffers from "developer design" (Where it's really easy to use if you think like a programmer)
More to the point, when I'm coming to an intersection at night time, I can see your headlights, and know that the distance you are at is safe for me to pull out. If you're driving at 30-60km/h over the limit, my calculation will be wrong, and an accident might be caused.
You may say that the accident is my fault in this case, and the law may even back you up. But if we're both dead, what difference does that make?
Yes. You should. Or call an ambulance. Mind you, ambulances are only allowed to travel at the speed limit, anyway.
What makes you think it will be safe to exceed the speed limit, just because your wife is in the passenger/back seat, crying out in pain and distracting you?
I have to agree. I don't think it needed any explanation of why Cyclops' eyes shoot uncontrollable beams of fiery destruction. It was made pretty clear that they did, and that's all that is needed.
After all, I've read a couple of x-men comics, and managed to enjoy them without having read all of the series.
Yes, everyone seems to have read the WND article and taken it as being the truth. Whereas, in fact, it is full of completely inaccurate statements, and unfounded opinions. JonKatz has aded his own opinions to that to make his screed, which seems based far more on his personal fears and prejudices than any attempt at journalism. This isn't even biased editorialism, this is complete misrepresentation, close to being slanderous.
I had a read of the site, and then went to the poll, which is where you really realise just how little clue the organisers have, and how wacky they are.
Those times are quite dead now and deserve a formal burial. Nowadays, most people don't blindly believe swaggering space propaganda, where the glamour of technical accomplishment is fiercely valued over any hint of earthly practicality. (In a word, most people aren't Motorola engineers.)
There are some definite inaccuracies in the WorldNet article. The Wave site mentions nothing about cash awards, for instance. The program is not being paid for by state funds, it is not for profit, depression is not listed as an early warning sign.
It is also ironic that an article which slams anonymous tipsters has one of its major sources (the critic who thinks it is reminiscent of Nazis) as an anonymous source.
The classes that are mentioned are classes in non-violent conflict resolution, not some weird indoctrination.
JonKatz should be ashamed to have reeled out this latest skreed based on such nonsense without even reading through the actual website.
To actually submit the form sign up for a (free) email account requires you to enter No private information at all, not even an email address. Can you say "anonymous email account"? I thought you could. There is always the possibility that they may be logging IP addresses, but I doubt it.
Notice that "Calling the WAVE helpline" is NOT one of the suggestions. That is reserved for "Imminent Warning Signs", which are:
1 Serious physical fighting with peers or family members. 2 Severe destruction of property. 3 Severe rage for seemingly minor reasons. 4 Detailed threats of lethal violence. 5 Unlawful possession and/or use of firearms and other weapons. 6 Other self-injurious behaviors or threats of suicide.
A toll-free, anonymous, 24-hour, 7-day-a-week means for students, parents, teachers, counselors and community members to report threats of circumstances (threats, weapons on campus or substance use/abuse, for example) which can affect the security of a school.
They're not talking about profiling, they're talking about actual violence and threats. If anything, this seems like a great way for young geeks to speak out against the bullying and harrassment they continually suffer, without the fear of making things worse for themselves.
As for the "right to consult your accuser" argument, this is not a court case. Anonymous calls to a line like this weigh very low as far as evidence is concerned. On the (hopefully rare) occasions when these Wave people decide that sending police is the best option, it would work in exactly the same way as an anonymous 911 call.
Why do we need IIS? Apache is a perfectly good http server. Or are you referring to the integration with MS authentication in IIS? If so, then what is needed for that is an Apache-Samba interface. On the other end, we could use a Mozilla*-Samba interface to give the equivalenmt IE functionality
Anyone feel like working on that?
*of course, a browser-independant system would be preferable
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Imagine it? You obviously weren't using word processors back in the eighties, when things were exactly like this. Save varied from things like
+k - g, - transfer - file, and depending on what word processor/text editor you used.
Big thanks to Apple there. It was Apple mandating a common look and feel, and especially common controls on all applications developed for the Macintosh that started the whole standardisation of user interface push.
Even if Macs do suck.
The GPL is really not designed for Pure Software Companies. It's not really designed for software companies at all. It's designed for software using businesses. If an average medium to large business took the money they spend every year or two on Microsoft Office, and instead allocated it to paying the wages of programmers working on OpenOffice, KOffice, AbiWord, Gnumeric, etc, then they'd be able to get the features they need included, while benefiting from the features that other users find critical.
That's how the GPL is supposed to be used.
The CS course I did (several years ago)included a unit on CPU logic design, as well as assembler.
I think it really gives you a good understanding when you get to know how the CPU actually processes the code. Of course, CPU complexity has increased so much over the intervening years, that my limited understanding is far from the whole truth, but I still find it useful.
Think about it for a minute here. Obviously, you can't just remove patent protection without having sdome kind of alternative. For example, give pharmaceutical companies a tax rebate for all funds spent on research. Suddenly, they have a great reason to research, but no reason to keep it a secret. They can spend their extra cash making their products more convenient, better tasting, whatever, in an attempt to improve their market share. Medical research could leap ahead with all the free flow of information.
All you have to do is find some way to make research spending reduce costs rather than increase them. Currently, that is provided by patent protection.
There are certainly companies making money on pharmaceuticals that are no longer patent protected, and they continue to spend money researching them. Look at paracetamol. They keep coming up with improvements to the shape and size, obviously spending money in the process.
How does that make sense, eh?
It's also irresponsible to be travelling at an excessive speed, so that people cannot reasonably predict your car's movement and braking ability.
You mustn't be reading the same bit of text.
It says the name must be changed IF it doesn't meet the RFC spec, which would seem to imply that the name does not need to be changed if it does.
I've been a Notes Admin since v3.3 or so, and I have to say that I think Tom has hit the nail on the head with this point. One of Notes/Domino's strongest features is its excellent database structure, and the replication technology. The Notes Client and the Domino server share the same database engine, so moving a particular application from a locally stored version to a server for general use can be done by simply copying the file.
It's user interface is possibly its worst feature, so hopefully we can ignore that.
Can either of these do replication/data synching between servers? Is there any OS DB that does? That what should be used. Combine with standard email, LDAP, something like SteelBlue, or other ColdFusion-like system, and you've got most of the stuff you need.
What we need from a groupware project is for all these types of elements to be tied together, while still allowing the individual elements to be upgraded individually and even replaced with alternates.
That's what I'd like to see, anyway. A real open source replacement for Notes, combining the best of everything, for everyone.
Unfortunately, Lotus seem to be very short-sighted in this regard.
Yes, they have Domino for Linux, but at the same time, they have dropped all but Windows versions of the Notes client. Now web-enabled deatabases can be run from any java-capable browser, but for designing and administering your apps, you need a Windows box.
Mind you, Notes is a pretty kludgy client program anyway, with a lot of user-unfriendly features. It suffers from "developer design" (Where it's really easy to use if you think like a programmer)
More to the point, when I'm coming to an intersection at night time, I can see your headlights, and know that the distance you are at is safe for me to pull out. If you're driving at 30-60km/h over the limit, my calculation will be wrong, and an accident might be caused.
You may say that the accident is my fault in this case, and the law may even back you up. But if we're both dead, what difference does that make?
Yes. You should. Or call an ambulance. Mind you, ambulances are only allowed to travel at the speed limit, anyway.
What makes you think it will be safe to exceed the speed limit, just because your wife is in the passenger/back seat, crying out in pain and distracting you?
179*360 + 2 = 64,442
When you include the equator. Duh!
Actually, that's not correct, since at the north and south poles, all 360 degrees of longitude converge on the same point. The correct number is
(180*360)-718 = 64,082
The rest of that line could be "via encrypted modem dedicated connection", or something similar.
That would let them use a transparent tap network card.
We can say it, we just can't speak it.
And that situation is likely to continue.
English has a much better chance of becoming a common language than Esperanto.
DeCSS is open source software, not proprietry. This is not a question of stealing IP. You are thinking of the Napster case.
The MPAA is trying to block DeCSS for the same reasons they tried to block the sale of home video recorders.
I have to agree. I don't think it needed any explanation of why Cyclops' eyes shoot uncontrollable beams of fiery destruction. It was made pretty clear that they did, and that's all that is needed.
After all, I've read a couple of x-men comics, and managed to enjoy them without having read all of the series.
Yes, everyone seems to have read the WND article and taken it as being the truth. Whereas, in fact, it is full of completely inaccurate statements, and unfounded opinions. JonKatz has aded his own opinions to that to make his screed, which seems based far more on his personal fears and prejudices than any attempt at journalism. This isn't even biased editorialism, this is complete misrepresentation, close to being slanderous.
I had a read of the site, and then went to the poll, which is where you really realise just how little clue the organisers have, and how wacky they are.
There are some definite inaccuracies in the WorldNet article. The Wave site mentions nothing about cash awards, for instance. The program is not being paid for by state funds, it is not for profit, depression is not listed as an early warning sign.
It is also ironic that an article which slams anonymous tipsters has one of its major sources (the critic who thinks it is reminiscent of Nazis) as an anonymous source.
The classes that are mentioned are classes in non-violent conflict resolution, not some weird indoctrination.
JonKatz should be ashamed to have reeled out this latest skreed based on such nonsense without even reading through the actual website.
To actually submit the form sign up for a (free) email account requires you to enter No private information at all, not even an email address. Can you say "anonymous email account"? I thought you could. There is always the possibility that they may be logging IP addresses, but I doubt it.
Yes, but also after this list of Early Warning Signs, their suggestions for what to do are:
Notice that "Calling the WAVE helpline" is NOT one of the suggestions. That is reserved for "Imminent Warning Signs", which are:
1 Serious physical fighting with peers or family members.
2 Severe destruction of property.
3 Severe rage for seemingly minor reasons.
4 Detailed threats of lethal violence.
5 Unlawful possession and/or use of firearms and other weapons.
6 Other self-injurious behaviors or threats of suicide.
And that lot certainly sound fair enough.
They're not talking about profiling, they're talking about actual violence and threats. If anything, this seems like a great way for young geeks to speak out against the bullying and harrassment they continually suffer, without the fear of making things worse for themselves.
As for the "right to consult your accuser" argument, this is not a court case. Anonymous calls to a line like this weigh very low as far as evidence is concerned. On the (hopefully rare) occasions when these Wave people decide that sending police is the best option, it would work in exactly the same way as an anonymous 911 call.
Here is a page which lists the various platforms supported by Chili!Soft ASP
And this is what it does.
Sounds pretty hoopy. Let's hope Cobalt do decide to give back to the community that's put them where they are now and open-source it.
Why do we need IIS? Apache is a perfectly good http server. Or are you referring to the integration with MS authentication in IIS? If so, then what is needed for that is an Apache-Samba interface. On the other end, we could use a Mozilla*-Samba interface to give the equivalenmt IE functionality
Anyone feel like working on that?
*of course, a browser-independant system would be preferable