If we have to pull things like "a ?: b" out of your code to get it running on other implementations of open systems, then your software isn't as "open" as you think it is.
If someone else has the right to pull those out and compile it on whatever platform combination they choose, then that is open, as defined by the open source / free software community.
Open standards and interfaces are trumped by open code - they can be reverse-engineered from working code if necessary.
If the working code does not match the interface, then I'll always be glad I have it, and not the interface that isn't being followed.
Both is optimal, but if I can only have one, I'll pick the code and rights to fix it.
Joel is the biggest stuffed shirt that I know of in popular media. And he's not even that popular, outside of us in the type-for-a living crowd.
He embodies an impractical and obtuse attitude towards software development that has made me walk out on or simply refuse a few job interviews.
Anytime some dipstick wants me to estimate the number of piano movers required in lower Manhattan, I want to tell them to stop snorting the crack that Joel is handing them. Or whatever people do with crack.
His 'articles' aren't much more than his well-meaning, but useless "folksy" opinions on subjects that are either common sense (and therefore unneccesary), or him simply being contrary (and therefore unusable) to drum up blog links, and therefore sell more of his weak foggy-bottom bug-tracking-with-salsa-and-cheese or whatever. Which, of course, is designed with and intended to support the very same impractical methodologies that he espouses on a regular basis.
Joel is essentially the homeopathy of the software world - not really dangerous, but useless, time wasting, and a proponent of expensive false hope for those too clueless to actually use critical thinking in thier lives.
Actually, fedora ships with yum, which does what you have described, and there is an apt port for fedora, which I use every day, to also do what you just described.
If that was your reason for not using it, then you're not paying attention. (yum has been around since FC1 at least.)
Without the third parties "gumming up the debate", you won't see any debate between the "big two" candidates. What you're going to see is, as the slashdot blurb called it, a joint press conference where they agree beforehand which positions they will take, which questions they don't have to answer, and how they will argue.
In other words, there will be no value to the Bush/Kerry debate, other than to act as a launching platform for whatever catch phrases thier speechwriters want joe american to be repeating Frday morning.
And, btw, the reason they have such low chances of being elected is because they are excluded from the process. Not the other way around.
Terrorism cannot be fought. It must be eliminated at the source. Attitude toward U.S. policy and actions is the primary reason terrorists attack us. The sanest and surest method for preventing future attacks is to work on either those attitudes, policies, or actions.
The current U.S. leaders' (and most likely alternates') plans of action consists of throwing money at temporary false security - and ensuring that the money thrown lands as close to their own pockets as possible. Many people will die during this process, some soldiers, some innocent, some from each side. But terrorism won't stop until people are no longer deperate to terrorize.
I'm trying to determine if he didn't answer any questiosn because he simply doesn't know any of the answers, or if he didn't answer any questiosn because he's afraid it would show him in a bad light.
Especially where the claim that Ingres will be chosen because it "is the most functional and best database in the open source market today", but he cannot give even a single reason why this is so.
I assume this whole maneuver is spin applied from a neuvo-dinosaur, trying to prove it relevance in an increasingly shrinking market. The unaddressed question about postgres was really the important one to address: If you wanted to go with an OSS database, why not go with the market leader? If you wanted to open up your own database, why not release it via the GPL or BSD, allowing it to be merged with another db project?
This guy appears to be a mouthpiece for a company that has no intention of supporting the OSS community - instead it wants to try and 'pull an IBM' by getting free developers, without understanding how IBM has joined the community and stopped acting like a coporate predator towards us. Hucking money in isn't the solution, CA.
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Where do you actually see the new eyecandy? Dropshadows, transparency, etc... Don't new window managers and applications have to be built to take advantage of them? (I've only read part of the article, so sorry if I missed this answer there.)
That actually shows strong evidence that a plain on Mars was once wet. Not really the discovery of ice on Mars - just something to stoke the fires of hope, wouldn't you say?
First of all, some of use get thousands of spams a day. Our domains get millions of them, sometimes tens of millions of them a week.
Your OSX filter seems to fix the problem for you, but it does not fix the problem that we are paying for the traffic of these millions of mails.
Slowing this down has the effect of making it possible for the Internet to become cheaper and faster. (No guarantee it will, of course.)
In addition, we're paying the upstream costs for everyone to deal with the spam problem, and for all of the time employees and customers spend noodling with spam filters, gauranteeing no false positives.
I'm not talking from personal knowledge, just piecing together what I think I've heard, but... Before this new class was invented, wouldn't these craft have fit under the 'ultralight' heading, which does not require licensing?
Could this be intended to help HomeSec track these "potential weapon" vehicles?
My favorite thing about Windows 95 was the.wav file that yelled "Easy ball is my new friend!"... I kept that around for years as my startup sound on various *nixes - wish I could find it now.:)
Why would the use of WINE prevent low latency use? One more time, WINE is an implementation of the same win32 spec as MS Windows is - not a slow emulator. It therefore can and often does run just as fast as windows - and in some cases, faster.
Is the latency an educated userspace vs kernel space issue you can expand upon, or just a personal bias against WINE?
I never really had a use for Novell servers before - they were the 'ugly legacy black boxes' I usually was tasked with removing and replacing before this recent change in direction.
Now, Groupwise, Nterprise, Red Carpet Enterprise, Ximian Desktop and SuSe, in a tight package, intended to scale seamlessly all the way up and down the enterprise, all backed by a company with considerable name recognition and cash, and has been defending ground against MS for decades?
This sounds like it could be a killer combination - something that could provide a significant challenge to MS, in a relatively short time.
One thing I don't knoww about Novell - are they known to treat thier customers (or even the general market) reasonably well? I know there is an ancient SCO relationship, but not one that would indicate they support the current regime or direction over there, correct?
So, this is an advertisement for whatever this vidtel dot com thing is? I'd love to know how it's working - probably cheap as heck, considering all they do is give out a little cash and a few cameras, and sites like us bury them in vidtel sales leads...
that if I ever open my own office, we'll have decent coasters - the thick, absorbent kind to keep beer from sopping into your keyboard if you set down your mug too heavily.
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Could you point towards a roadmap for Gimp development? (And please tell me they are working to improve the text layer tools! :) )
If your company insists on using free software, then why are you running Windows?
If we have to pull things like "a ?: b" out of your code to get it running on other implementations of open systems, then your software isn't as "open" as you think it is.
If someone else has the right to pull those out and compile it on whatever platform combination they choose, then that is open, as defined by the open source / free software community.
Open standards and interfaces are trumped by open code - they can be reverse-engineered from working code if necessary.
If the working code does not match the interface, then I'll always be glad I have it, and not the interface that isn't being followed.
Both is optimal, but if I can only have one, I'll pick the code and rights to fix it.
Joel is the biggest stuffed shirt that I know of in popular media. And he's not even that popular, outside of us in the type-for-a living crowd.
He embodies an impractical and obtuse attitude towards software development that has made me walk out on or simply refuse a few job interviews.
Anytime some dipstick wants me to estimate the number of piano movers required in lower Manhattan, I want to tell them to stop snorting the crack that Joel is handing them. Or whatever people do with crack.
His 'articles' aren't much more than his well-meaning, but useless "folksy" opinions on subjects that are either common sense (and therefore unneccesary), or him simply being contrary (and therefore unusable) to drum up blog links, and therefore sell more of his weak foggy-bottom bug-tracking-with-salsa-and-cheese or whatever. Which, of course, is designed with and intended to support the very same impractical methodologies that he espouses on a regular basis.
Joel is essentially the homeopathy of the software world - not really dangerous, but useless, time wasting, and a proponent of expensive false hope for those too clueless to actually use critical thinking in thier lives.
Actually, fedora ships with yum, which does what you have described, and there is an apt port for fedora, which I use every day, to also do what you just described.
If that was your reason for not using it, then you're not paying attention. (yum has been around since FC1 at least.)
Without the third parties "gumming up the debate", you won't see any debate between the "big two" candidates. What you're going to see is, as the slashdot blurb called it, a joint press conference where they agree beforehand which positions they will take, which questions they don't have to answer, and how they will argue.
In other words, there will be no value to the Bush/Kerry debate, other than to act as a launching platform for whatever catch phrases thier speechwriters want joe american to be repeating Frday morning.
And, btw, the reason they have such low chances of being elected is because they are excluded from the process. Not the other way around.
Terrorism cannot be fought. It must be eliminated at the source. Attitude toward U.S. policy and actions is the primary reason terrorists attack us. The sanest and surest method for preventing future attacks is to work on either those attitudes, policies, or actions.
The current U.S. leaders' (and most likely alternates') plans of action consists of throwing money at temporary false security - and ensuring that the money thrown lands as close to their own pockets as possible. Many people will die during this process, some soldiers, some innocent, some from each side. But terrorism won't stop until people are no longer deperate to terrorize.
I'm trying to determine if he didn't answer any questiosn because he simply doesn't know any of the answers, or if he didn't answer any questiosn because he's afraid it would show him in a bad light.
Especially where the claim that Ingres will be chosen because it "is the most functional and best database in the open source market today", but he cannot give even a single reason why this is so.
I assume this whole maneuver is spin applied from a neuvo-dinosaur, trying to prove it relevance in an increasingly shrinking market. The unaddressed question about postgres was really the important one to address: If you wanted to go with an OSS database, why not go with the market leader? If you wanted to open up your own database, why not release it via the GPL or BSD, allowing it to be merged with another db project?
This guy appears to be a mouthpiece for a company that has no intention of supporting the OSS community - instead it wants to try and 'pull an IBM' by getting free developers, without understanding how IBM has joined the community and stopped acting like a coporate predator towards us. Hucking money in isn't the solution, CA.
Alex, the guy who wrote the article is actually Yaxu, one of the two members of slub.
Actually, it uses *this* AGC.
Where do you actually see the new eyecandy? Dropshadows, transparency, etc ... Don't new window managers and applications have to be built to take advantage of them? (I've only read part of the article, so sorry if I missed this answer there.)
That actually shows strong evidence that a plain on Mars was once wet. Not really the discovery of ice on Mars - just something to stoke the fires of hope, wouldn't you say?
Not ugly, just misinformed.
First of all, some of use get thousands of spams a day. Our domains get millions of them, sometimes tens of millions of them a week.
Your OSX filter seems to fix the problem for you, but it does not fix the problem that we are paying for the traffic of these millions of mails.
Slowing this down has the effect of making it possible for the Internet to become cheaper and faster. (No guarantee it will, of course.)
In addition, we're paying the upstream costs for everyone to deal with the spam problem, and for all of the time employees and customers spend noodling with spam filters, gauranteeing no false positives.
I'm not talking from personal knowledge, just piecing together what I think I've heard, but ... Before this new class was invented, wouldn't these craft have fit under the 'ultralight' heading, which does not require licensing?
Could this be intended to help HomeSec track these "potential weapon" vehicles?
My favorite thing about Windows 95 was the .wav file that yelled "Easy ball is my new friend!" ... I kept that around for years as my startup sound on various *nixes - wish I could find it now. :)
Why would the use of WINE prevent low latency use? One more time, WINE is an implementation of the same win32 spec as MS Windows is - not a slow emulator. It therefore can and often does run just as fast as windows - and in some cases, faster.
Is the latency an educated userspace vs kernel space issue you can expand upon, or just a personal bias against WINE?
This is basically a modernized walkman without removeable media, right? Why all the hoopla about them removing some buttons from it?
So, this is some java thing?
I never really had a use for Novell servers before - they were the 'ugly legacy black boxes' I usually was tasked with removing and replacing before this recent change in direction.
Now, Groupwise, Nterprise, Red Carpet Enterprise, Ximian Desktop and SuSe, in a tight package, intended to scale seamlessly all the way up and down the enterprise, all backed by a company with considerable name recognition and cash, and has been defending ground against MS for decades?
This sounds like it could be a killer combination - something that could provide a significant challenge to MS, in a relatively short time.
One thing I don't knoww about Novell - are they known to treat thier customers (or even the general market) reasonably well? I know there is an ancient SCO relationship, but not one that would indicate they support the current regime or direction over there, correct?
Your mail keeps bouncing.
Add "pcspkr" to /etc/modules.conf. It's a2.6 thing, not necessarily a fedora one - the pc speaker is now a loadable module.
So, this is an advertisement for whatever this vidtel dot com thing is? I'd love to know how it's working - probably cheap as heck, considering all they do is give out a little cash and a few cameras, and sites like us bury them in vidtel sales leads...
The beasties have been lame since the early 90's. Now, they work for the man. No big surprise.
Support independant music and go to used cd stores.
Screw the record industry and their shills.
that if I ever open my own office, we'll have decent coasters - the thick, absorbent kind to keep beer from sopping into your keyboard if you set down your mug too heavily.
Oh, and it'll have a bar.