Yeah, I remember my dad telling me that back in the early days of computing how computers used to be so big that they filled rooms as large as..... oh wait, Nevermind.
From the article: Windows is a monopoly because short-sighted open source geeks and UNIX weenies were too busy squabbling over whether RPM was better than build-from-source or Gnome versus KDE, etc, ad nauseam.
What the heck? I use and enjoy using Open Source Software because the developers and the community DO have those types of arguments. I would rather them be arguing about which type of package management system works best and then go on to make a better one (which some do) than to spend that time putting up with a system which is built on a system that does not change at all. Things need to change, and eventually Microsoft will realize that if it doesn't change, that it will get left in the dust.
You can't honestly tell me that Microsoft can keep playing their same games with customers and developers for the next 20-30 years and get away with it. Eventually, someone will come along and give Mike Tyson an asswhipping. Maybe that time is now with Linux, maybe its not. But if its something that comes from non-intelligent conversation, then I want no part of it.
When the fighter falls, all the others will start watching another fighter.
This is exactly right. If you've ever search for something like the edonkey2k client, you'll see that it can be hard to determine which one is the real client and which one is some company trying to make a buck.
Firefox could easily fall into the same situation, which makes it more important for it to take precautionary steps like having a trademark.
This letter by Dr. Edgar David Villenueva Nunez that the linked article links to is absolutely fantastic. I've never read such a good argument for open source outside of its founders. Nor have I read such a great and well thought out letter by a modern day politician. It makes me want to move to Peru.
I think that you all should take a moment to read through that so that you can remind yourself that open source is the "more correct" form of software development.
Make fun of The O.C. all you want, I will actually be watching The O.C. for The O.C., not for some Star Wars trailer.
I watch the O.C. because I think it is produced quite well, decent drama, good music, good camera work and is funny once in a while. Besides that, it focuses a lot on adult problems as well as teenager problems, so its not specifically targeted at the 13-19 demographic.
From my point of view, my viewing of "The O.C." will be interupted with the broadcast of a crappy trailer for what looks like will be a crappy movie.
oxymoron: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.
Duh! I get what Mark Stone was trying to say, but it was still an oxymoron. My calling it an oxymoron doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense, but just that its an oxymoron.
And will make you have to piss 10000 more times a day. I've been drinking a lot more water over the past few months and have found that it really goes right through you. Of course, I guess that's better than the junk that stays inside when you drink pop.
Computer Programmer: A biomechanical device that turns caffinated or carbonated beverage into computer code.
I was with my wife in a pizza place a few years ago and we happened to be talking about baseball (once in about probably 10 times I've talked about it in my life) and right then the girl's cell phone in the booth next to us goes off and plays "Take me out the ballgame". That was a weird coincidence.
I made my own long and dissonant ringtone for text messages so that it will wake me up at night if a server goes down.
Alright, point taken. But I somehow wonder if power plants in the midwest would really just close up and start buying their power from the west coast. It would have to be much cheaper I would think.
The problem with all this is that a large portion of the country that consumes a lot of power is in areas that don't get enough sunlight per year to be efficient. The midwest for example. I remember seeing a map somewhere that color-coded the US like a weathermap, showing areas that could efficiently support solar energy. Sadly, the only good place for it is in the southwest. Maybe this new technology can do better?
Heh, isn't that the way it goes with almost all technology. New technologies cause new problems that would not be a problem on old technologies. Its as if we are moving in reverse rather than forward.
John Cage attended a performance of Glenn Branca and stood up in the middle and yelled "If this is the future of music then we're all going to hell!" And that was John Cage saying that!! Of course, a lot of John Cage's music is actually listenable. So I guess he just got fed up with the psuedo-chord progressions that Branca makes with his 12-100 guitar chorus.
If you can ever find some of his music (pretty rare in music stores), its worth listening too.
So that we don't wind up with companies saying things like:
"Buy our product or we'll use our connections at the bank to drain your account and default you on your home mortgage. Oh and by the way, if you say anything bad about us, we're going to tell the local news that you molest children."
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Yeah, I remember my dad telling me that back in the early days of computing how computers used to be so big that they filled rooms as large as..... oh wait, Nevermind.
Kinda looks like a bowling alley too.
From the article: Windows is a monopoly because short-sighted open source geeks and UNIX weenies were too busy squabbling over whether RPM was better than build-from-source or Gnome versus KDE, etc, ad nauseam.
What the heck? I use and enjoy using Open Source Software because the developers and the community DO have those types of arguments. I would rather them be arguing about which type of package management system works best and then go on to make a better one (which some do) than to spend that time putting up with a system which is built on a system that does not change at all. Things need to change, and eventually Microsoft will realize that if it doesn't change, that it will get left in the dust.
You can't honestly tell me that Microsoft can keep playing their same games with customers and developers for the next 20-30 years and get away with it. Eventually, someone will come along and give Mike Tyson an asswhipping. Maybe that time is now with Linux, maybe its not. But if its something that comes from non-intelligent conversation, then I want no part of it.
When the fighter falls, all the others will start watching another fighter.
This is exactly right. If you've ever search for something like the edonkey2k client, you'll see that it can be hard to determine which one is the real client and which one is some company trying to make a buck.
Firefox could easily fall into the same situation, which makes it more important for it to take precautionary steps like having a trademark.
This letter by Dr. Edgar David Villenueva Nunez that the linked article links to is absolutely fantastic. I've never read such a good argument for open source outside of its founders. Nor have I read such a great and well thought out letter by a modern day politician. It makes me want to move to Peru.
I think that you all should take a moment to read through that so that you can remind yourself that open source is the "more correct" form of software development.
Ok, appearently I can't read. March 10th.
The O.C. turned out to be pretty good. What happened to the Star Wars trailer? In the words of the Simpsons. Ha Ha.
Make fun of The O.C. all you want,
I will actually be watching The O.C. for The O.C., not for some Star Wars trailer.
I watch the O.C. because I think it is produced quite well, decent drama, good music, good camera work and is funny once in a while. Besides that, it focuses a lot on adult problems as well as teenager problems, so its not specifically targeted at the 13-19 demographic.
From my point of view, my viewing of "The O.C." will be interupted with the broadcast of a crappy trailer for what looks like will be a crappy movie.
is basically the same as the change from linear, Token Ring-ish networks to big Ethernet meshes ...
Is that like Tolkien Elv-ish?
Only if you fly with TWA.
oxymoron: a combination of contradictory or incongruous words (as cruel kindness); broadly : something (as a concept) that is made up of contradictory or incongruous elements.
Duh! I get what Mark Stone was trying to say, but it was still an oxymoron. My calling it an oxymoron doesn't mean that it doesn't make sense, but just that its an oxymoron.
from m-w.com:
inevitable: incapable of being avoided or evaded
uncertain: not certain to occur
inevitable uncertainties
And will make you have to piss 10000 more times a day. I've been drinking a lot more water over the past few months and have found that it really goes right through you. Of course, I guess that's better than the junk that stays inside when you drink pop.
Computer Programmer: A biomechanical device that turns caffinated or carbonated beverage into computer code.
And there is nothing wrong with drinking 64 oz of mountain dew and needing to refill it?
Of course, says me, who just took 6 20 oz bottles of Dr. Pepper(tm) to the recycling bin.
Techies drink carbonated drinks in great quantities, Other people download expensive ringtones in great quantities. Take your pick.
I was with my wife in a pizza place a few years ago and we happened to be talking about baseball (once in about probably 10 times I've talked about it in my life) and right then the girl's cell phone in the booth next to us goes off and plays "Take me out the ballgame". That was a weird coincidence.
I made my own long and dissonant ringtone for text messages so that it will wake me up at night if a server goes down.
says anonymous coward. ;-)
Hmmm, that's cool. The maps that I saw where much more dramatic than these are. Perhaps these are more accurate though.
Alright, point taken. But I somehow wonder if power plants in the midwest would really just close up and start buying their power from the west coast.
It would have to be much cheaper I would think.
The problem with all this is that a large portion of the country that consumes a lot of power is in areas that don't get enough sunlight per year to be efficient. The midwest for example. I remember seeing a map somewhere that color-coded the US like a weathermap, showing areas that could efficiently support solar energy. Sadly, the only good place for it is in the southwest. Maybe this new technology can do better?
Just like on the old music stands:
MAN|HAS|SET in shit
Heh, isn't that the way it goes with almost all technology. New technologies cause new problems that would not be a problem on old technologies. Its as if we are moving in reverse rather than forward.
That's funny.
John Cage attended a performance of Glenn Branca and stood up in the middle and yelled "If this is the future of music then we're all going to hell!" And that was John Cage saying that!! Of course, a lot of John Cage's music is actually listenable. So I guess he just got fed up with the psuedo-chord progressions that Branca makes with his 12-100 guitar chorus.
If you can ever find some of his music (pretty rare in music stores), its worth listening too.
Actually, if it was John Cage, you would hear the performer turning the page.
Sorry, thought people would remember EV1 as ev1servers.net:
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1541757,00
Why should marketing only go so far?
So that we don't wind up with companies saying things like:
"Buy our product or we'll use our connections at the bank to drain your account and default you on your home mortgage. Oh and by the way, if you say anything bad about us, we're going to tell the local news that you molest children."
Sure that's extreme, but you wanted an example.